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The eastern side of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula juts into the Pacific Ocean west ofAlaska. In this winter image, a volcanic terrain is hidden under snow-covered peaks andvalley glaciers feed blue ice into coastal waters.
This scene was acquired by the ASTER instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite onFebruary 27, 2002.
Image provided by the USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch as part of the Earth as Art II image series
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December and January brought a series of intense winter storms to the peninsula in far eastern Russia.
The peninsula in eastern Siberia features rugged terrain with towering, snow-covered peaks and cloud-filled valleys stretching between the Pacific Ocean…
Sea ice around the southernmost continent hit one of its lowest seasonal highs since the start of the satellite record.
