Landsat 9 satellite captured Mount Erebus, Antarctica.
Mount Erebus is the second-highest volcano in Antarctica (after Mount Sidley), the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth. With a summit elevation of 3,794m, it is located in the Ross Dependency on Ross Island, which is also home to three inactive volcanoes: Mount Terror, Mount Bird, and Mount Terra Nova. The volcano has been active since about 1.3 million years ago and has a long-lived lava lake in its inner summit crater that has been present since at least the early 1970s. The summit contains a persistent convecting phonolitic lava lake, one of five long-lasting lava lakes on Earth.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
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