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A lake below the the Flade Isblink ice cap drained and created an unusual shape in the ice.


NASA Earth Observatory image (top) by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and acquired by special request with the support of Theresa Arvidson (NASA/GSFC) and Eugene Fosnight (USGS/EDC). Photograph by Michael Studinger/NASA. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published March 3, 2015
Data acquired June 21, 2014

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Landsat 8 > OLI