Simulated 3-D View (IMAGE)

Cornell University

Simulated 3-D View

Caption

A 70 m deep basin formed near the summit of the Flade Isblink Ice Cap in the fall of 2012 when a lake 540 m beneath the ice surface suddenly emptied. Summer meltwater streams on the ice cap surface (blue) enter crevasses near the bottom of the image. Simulated 3-dimensional view from the south made using WorldView-2 Satellite imagery. Scale changes due to perspective, but the basin is about 4 km north-south and 2 km east-west.

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WorldView-2Imagery (c) 2014, DigitalGlobe, Inc.

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