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A Modern Lake in an Ancient Crater

Famously visible from space, ring-shaped Manicouagan Lake was built at the dawn of the Space Age when Canada dammed a river to flood a Triassic-aged impact crater.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Sara E. Pratt.

Published February 4, 2022
Data acquired January 20, 2022

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Terra > MODIS