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Oregon as seen by TERRA

The flagship in NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS), Terra launched on December 18, 1999, and began collecting science data on February 24, 2000. The photo shows the ground near one of the long-dormant Three Sisters volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains of west-central Oregon has risen approximately 10 centimeters in a 10-by-20-km parcel since 1996, meaning that magma or underground lava is slowly flowing into the area, according to a research team from the U.S. Geological Survey.

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