Coastal southwest Greenland

Terrain of southwest Greenland, about 100 miles south of Kangerlussuaq.  Merely snow-covered now, this land was glaciated in the geologic past, and bears the obvious scars of the passage of a colossal mass of ice over it.

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NASA/John Sonntag
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