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A flood in a glacial lake behind Lituya Glacier surprised an unsuspecting fisherman and reworked a young delta in Alaska.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018) processed by the European Space Agency. Photograph by James Capra (National Park Service). Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Michael Loso (U.S. National Park Service), Hig Higman (Ground Truth Alaska), and Marten Geertsema (University of Northern British Columbia).
Published November 30, 2020 Data acquired July 1 - September 6, 2020