Picture of the day: The image above shows a rare, cloud-free view of the remote Elephant Island on December 13, 2020, as captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8.

Artist: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kasha Patel. | Credit: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147696/elephant-island | License: Public domain | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephant_Island_by_Landsat_8.jpeg

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Elephant Island

The mountainous icy terrain was a challenging but necessary refuge for the crew of <em>HMS Endurance</em>.