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.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Kettle Lakes of the Turtle Mountains.

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