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ABCs from Space: M
Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 82015-08-14
NASA
Washington, DC, United States
What begins with M? The meandering Mississippi. MODIS and MISR. Mumbai, Miami, and Moscow. These medial moraines merging muck and minerals for millennia!
On August 14, 2015, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this image of glaciers in the Tian Shan mountains in northeastern Kyrgyzstan. The trail of brown sediment in the middle of the uppermost glacier is a medial moraine, a term glaciologists use to describe sediment that accumulates in the middle of merging glaciers.
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- Title: ABCs from Space: M
- Creator: Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8
- Date Created: 2015-08-14
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