Mount Terror is not high adequate to prevent people from climbing its peak and skiing its slopes. Even Mount Erebus, the taller of the two peaks at 3,794 meters (12,448 feet) above sea level, brings in a reasonable number of climbers.
June 17– November 8, 2021
Mount Terror might seem like a place to avoid. But this Antarctic volcano is not as terrifying as its name implies.
From a geological point of view, the mountain itself is fairly benign. Located on the eastern side of Ross Island, it is a guard volcano that includes various pyroclastic cones and lava domes. The volcano is now extinct– suggesting that researchers consider it not likely to erupt once again. The last recognized eruption occurred in the Pleistocene, the geological epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years earlier. In addition, the mountains youngest igneous rocks are nearly 1 million years of ages. On the other hand, the neighboring Mount Erebus– believed to be the southernmost active volcano on the planet– contains a churning lava lake within its caldera.
Standing 3,262 meters (10,702 feet) above sea level, the scale of Mount Terror might be intimidating to some individuals. The profile above portrays the mountains surface elevation along a course near its peak. Data for the elevation profile were gotten on June 17, 2021, with the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) on NASAs Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2).
Standing 3,262 meters (10,702 feet) above sea level, the scale of Mount Terror might be intimidating to some people. Data for the elevation profile were obtained on June 17, 2021, with the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) on NASAs Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2).
Notice that the left side of the profile (south of the island) is slightly higher than the right side (north of the island). This is since the Ross Ice Shelf stands higher above the sea surface area than the sea ice. For recommendation, the satellites orbital course is laid over a natural-color image obtained on November 8, 2021, by the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9.
Mount Terror is not high enough to avoid people from climbing its peak and skiing its slopes. Even Mount Erebus, the taller of the 2 peaks at 3,794 meters (12,448 feet) above water level, brings in a reasonable number of climbers. From afar, the islands two tallest volcanoes offer a beautiful backdrop for scientists working on the islands southern suggestion at McMurdo Station and Scott Base.
Mount Terrors name is unassociated to any of its physical characteristics. Instead, it was named in 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross after his ship, the HMS Terror. Both the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus belonged to many polar voyages, consisting of 3 explorations into Antarctic waters between 1840 and 1843.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, utilizing Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and ICESat-2 data from the National Snow & & Ice Center.
