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Avalanche in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park

A slide of rock, ice, dust, and snow left a scar of gray across the landscape around one of New Zealand’s largest mountains.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Avalanche in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team and the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published February 15, 2013
Data acquired February 5, 2013

Source:: EO-1 > ALI