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Yukon River Delta, Alaska

 

An intricate maze of small lakes and waterways define the Yukon Delta at the confluenceof Alaska's Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers with the frigid Bering Sea. Wildlife aboundson the delta and offshore where sheets of sea ice form during the coldest months of theyear.

This scene was acquired by the ASTER instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite onMay 26, 2002.

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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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