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| | EO Natural Hazards: Alaska's Spring Thaw |
 | | The melting snow and thawing ice filled the Yukon River until it bulged over its banks with runoff when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured the left image on May 23, 2006. |
 | | Two weeks later, on June 5, the floods had drained and the Innoko River near Holy Cross, Alaska, was flooded. |
 | | Though clouds cover the mountains in the northwest, the ground beneath shows only traces of snow.The flooding in the upper reaches of the Yukon River has subsided, but the Innoko River, a tributary of the Yukon, is now flooded, the liquid water an inky fl. |
| earthobservatory.nasa.gov /NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=13633 (330 words) |
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