This Plate is a Landsat image of a part of the Ural Mountains of the Soviet Union showing the characteristic scalloped pattern of numerous cirques, some of which contain cirque glaciers. According to Armstrong et al . The surface of an ice piedmont slopes gently seawards and may be anything from 1 to 50 km wide, fringing long stretches of coastline with ice cliffs.
Fog banks fill most of the valleys in the two photographs.