File:Pico de Orizaba, Mexico.JPG

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Summary

Shadows accentuate several features of the Pico de Orizaba, a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stratovolcano" title="Stratovolcano">stratovolcano</a>, visible in this astronaut photograph from the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>. The 300-meter-deep summit crater is clearly visible against surrounding <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ice" title="Ice">ice</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Snow" title="Snow">snow</a> cover near image centre. Several <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lava" title="Lava">lava</a> flows extend down the flanks of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volcano" title="Volcano">volcano</a>, made readily visible by prominent cooling ridges along their sides known as flow levees. One of the most clearly visible examples is located on the south-west flank of the cone.

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current06:43, 7 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 06:43, 7 January 20174,288 × 2,850 (3.3 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)Shadows accentuate several features of the Pico de Orizaba, a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stratovolcano" title="Stratovolcano">stratovolcano</a>, visible in this astronaut photograph from the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>. The 300-meter-deep summit crater is clearly visible against surrounding <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ice" title="Ice">ice</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Snow" title="Snow">snow</a> cover near image centre. Several <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lava" title="Lava">lava</a> flows extend down the flanks of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volcano" title="Volcano">volcano</a>, made readily visible by prominent cooling ridges along their sides known as flow levees. One of the most clearly visible examples is located on the south-west flank of the cone.
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