On Friday, April 26, an avalanche on Mount Everest killed at least 13 Sherpa guides. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft captured this perspective view image of the mountain and avalanche location on April 28, 2014. The avalanche occurred in an area nicknamed the "popcorn field" (red star), which is surrounded by ice boulders along the route leading through the Khumbu Icefall. This perspective view looks toward the northeast, with Everest in the center of the view, and Lhotse, the fourth-highest mountain on Earth, on the skyline to the right center.
Image credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
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