Earth from space: ‘Lake of clouds’ appears between volcanic nesting dolls in Russia via rare mirror-like phenomenon

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Where is it? Onekotan Island, northwest Pacific Ocean [49.35544352, 154.7164388]

What’s in the photo? Clouds reflecting off the mirror-like surface of a crater lake between two halves of a volcano

Who took the photo? An unnamed astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS)

When was it taken? Aug. 19, 2023

This striking astronaut photo shows one of Russia’s deepest lakes sandwiched between two halves of a volcano as its surface was transformed into a reflective sea of swirling clouds thanks to a rare mirror-like phenomenon, known as “sunglint.”

The volcanic “nesting dolls,” collectively known as the Krenitsyna Volcano, are located on the southern tip of Onekotan Island in the Kuril Islands — a Russian archipelago located in the Pacific Ocean between the Kamchatka Peninsula and Hokkaido, the second-largest and northernmost island in Japan.

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