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Violent Formation for Mistastin Lake

The lake covers part of a crater where an asteroid once slammed into Labrador, Canada.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published June 30, 2021
Data acquired September 11, 2017

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI