Mackenzie Meets Beaufort

Canada

Landsat 8

Acquired 2017-07-19

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 5

In far northern Canada, pulses of freshwater flow down rivers after inland ice and snow melts. These pulses, known as a freshet, carry huge amounts of sediment. The sediment seen in this image flowed into the Beaufort Sea from the Mackenzie River, the longest northward-flowing river in North America.

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U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 5. Imagery in the public domain; the edit and sequencing are Orbital Artifacts’.

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Imagery curated from Earth as Art, courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data.

Acquired 2017-07-19Landsat 8

OA-034

Mackenzie Meets Beaufort

Canada

Landsat 8

Acquired 2017-07-19

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 5

In far northern Canada, pulses of freshwater flow down rivers after inland ice and snow melts. These pulses, known as a freshet, carry huge amounts of sediment. The sediment seen in this image flowed into the Beaufort Sea from the Mackenzie River, the longest northward-flowing river in North America.

Curated from

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 5. Imagery in the public domain; the edit and sequencing are Orbital Artifacts’.

Limited edition

24 of 24 remaining

Available as

Not yet in the shop. Get in touch → for commissions or an early print of this scene.

← Back to archive

← Previous

Vatnajokull Glacier Ice Cap

OA-033

Next →

Geometric Desert

OA-035