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The Lovely Shape of Spirit Lake

The mountain lake survived the catastrophic events surrounding the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens and gained a new shoreline resembling a heart.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published February 14, 2024
Data acquired April 26, 2023

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI