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NASA/GSFC; Link: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov
Patagonia is a mountainous region at the border between Chile and Argentina. You can see that the glacier (white) streaming from the mountains towards the foothills is interspersed with crevasses. The semicircular crest far left in the picture is pierced by three glacial rivers. The crest consists of coarse gravel, forming the terminal moraine for a long time, deposited by the ice tongue. Thus, the moraine marks the end of the glacier in former times and indicates a retreat of ice. In this false colour image, the vegetation is depicted in red.
Location: Patagonia, Latin America
Picture taken on May 2, 2000
Sensor: Terra ASTER
Band combination: VIS/NIR
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