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Kettle Lakes of the Turtle Mountains

The melting of stagnant, buried glaciers left North Dakota’s Turtle Mountains pockmarked with depressions that became ponds and lakes.


Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published August 16, 2015
Data acquired May 19, 2006

Source:
Terra > ASTER