Despite 9 months of continuous activity at
Kizimen Volcano,
seasonal changes from early fall 2013 (top) to late spring 2014 (lower)
dominate the landscape. Located on Russia’s subarctic Kamchatka
Peninsula, summers are short at Kizimen. Early snow covered the upper
slopes of the volcano and nearby ridges on September 2, 2013. Almost all
of Kamchatka (including Kizimen) was
covered in snow on April 14, 2014, almost a month into
astronomical spring.
On June 16, only a few days before the start of summer, snow remained
on scattered mountainsides, and the twin lakes at the foot of Kizimen
remained frozen.
These natural-color images were collected by the
Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8.
- Instrument(s):
- Landsat 8 - OLI - NASA
