Mouth of the Lena River, Russia

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

This interesting MODIS image from June 2, 2002, shows the Lena River in northern Siberia beginning to break free of its winter mantle of ice. Ice jams in the northern part of the river can cause flooding further south.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-06-04