Aerial image of a forming thermokarst lake in western #Alaska. Ice wedges in the ground are melting, the ground is sinking/subsiding and water is ponding in the newly formed depressions. This process will likely continue and accelerate and eventually form a #lake
The image is around 370m wide and taken from about 1000m altitude in one of our flight campaigns in 2021.
164.535°W; 66.532 °N
#aerial #aviation #eochat #landscape #remotesensing #earthart #science #permafrost #arctic #geography

okay nature like i appreciate the sentiment and probably great article but also this type of juxtaposition will never stop being funny

Once in a while I remember that the roots of “helicopter” are not “heli” and “copter” but “helico” and “pter” and I lose it