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Annotated Satellite Image of southern Alaska Showing Anchorage and Kodiak Island

Detailed Description

This MODIS Aqua 1-km-resolution, true-color satellite image shows a resuspended ash cloud generated from high winds scouring the dry, unvegetated deposits in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. The cloud stretches across Shelikof Strait to western Kodiak Island.

Location: south-central Alaska, from Kodiak to Anchorage

Sources/Usage

Public Domain.