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Pingualuit Crater, Canada

Pingualuit Crater holds a lake about 267 meters (876 feet) deep. Because this lake has no connection to any other water body, inflows from other lakes cannot contaminate Pingualuit’s sediments.


NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided by the University of Maryland’s Global Land Cover Facility. Caption by Michon Scott.

Published February 10, 2008
Data acquired August 17, 2002

Sources:
Landsat 7
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Topics:
Land Surface > Landscape > Landscape Pattern
Land Surface > Topography > Landforms