File:Lago Maggiore NM23-743-51.jpg
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English: Lake Maggiore and other Glacial Lakes, Italy/Switzerland, Winter/Spring 1997:
Glaciated, U-shaped river valleys are visible as they provide melt-water runoff that flows into the elongated lakes (dark features) in northwest Italy. From east to west (top to center) the three larger lakes are Lake Como, Lake Lugano (smallest of the three), and Lake Maggiore (largest-center of image). Several smaller lakes (also dark features) can be identified east and west of the southern end of Lake Maggiore. Sufficient water flows through the Alpine valleys around the Po River Basin to place Italy among the leading nations of Europe in terms of generating hydroelectricity. The lakes are constantly re-charged by melting valley glaciers and snow from the Swiss and Italian Alps. While most of the scene covers northwest Italy, a small piece of Switzerland is visible, particularly in the northeast quadrant (upper left) of the image. The Ticino River (winding valley feature—bottom of image), a tributary of the Po River, can be traced as it crosses a variety of landforms that includes the Swiss and Italian Alps, Lake Maggiore, and finally becomes part of the Padana Plain (middle, right edge of scene). |
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Earth.Jonhson Space Center.National Aeronautic and Space Administration.government/Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography/Earth From Space/low resolution.Lago Maggiore - Italy
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[edit]Kamlesh P. Lulla Ph.D. Chief, Earth Sciences Branch
Responsible NASA Official: Ed Wilson
Curator: Jaime Powell
Last Update: 06/17/2002
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- Ticino (fiume)
- Verbania
- Luino
- Angera
- Besozzo
- Brebbia
- Brezzo di Bedero
- Castelveccana
- Laveno-Mombello
- Porto Valtravaglia
- Ranco
- Tronzano Lago Maggiore
- Baveno
- Belgirate
- Cannero Riviera
- Cannobio
- Ghiffa
- Oggebbio
- Stresa
- Arona
- Dormelletto
- Lesa
- Meina
- Castelli di Cannero
- Isola Bella (Lago Maggiore)
- Minusio
- Muralto
- Ascona
- Tenero-Contra
- Isola Madre
- Isole Borromee
- Brissago
- Ronco sopra Ascona
- Toce
- Locarno
- Tresa
- Margorabbia
- Ispra
- Template:Lago Maggiore
- Sesto Calende
- Vevera
- Oggiogno
- Germignaga
- Cannobino
- Isolino Partegora
- Boesio
- Giona (torrente)
- Lenza (torrente)
- Castelletto sopra Ticino
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- 1997 photographs of Italy
- Satellite pictures of Lake Maggiore
- Satellite pictures of Lake Lugano
- Satellite pictures of Lake Como
- Satellite pictures of Lombardy
- Satellite pictures of Piedmont
- Satellite pictures of Switzerland
- Glacial lakes
- Aerial photographs of the canton of Ticino
- Earth photography from Mir
- Glacial geomorphology of Switzerland
- Aerial photographs of Lake Maggiore