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This ASTER image was acquired on July 29, 2000 and covers an area of 30 by 57 km in northern Italy. Lake Garda was formed by glaciers during the last Ice Age, and is Italy's largest lake. Lago di Garda lies in the prov-inces of Verona, Brescia, and Trento, and is 51 kilometers (32 miles) long and from 3 to 18 kilometers (2 to 11 miles) wide. The Sarca is its chief affluent, and the lake is drained southward by the Mincio, which dis-charges into the Po River. Many villas are situated on its shores. On the peninsula of Sirmione, at the southern end of the lake, are the ruins of a Roman villa and a castle of the Sca-ligers, an Italian family of the 16th century. The RIGHT image has the land area masked out, and a harsh stretch was applied to the lake values to display variations in sediment load. Also visible are hundreds of boats and their wakes, criss-crossing the lake.

PIA02671: Lake Garda, Italy
NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team

Lake Garda, the elongated, dark fea-ture near the center of the picture, is one of several glacially formed lakes in the Italian Alps of northern Italy. Lake Garda occupies a basin where the southern extent of an Alpine valley was deepened by glaciers and dam-med by a large terminal moraine. The lake is 32 miles (51 km) long and has contrasting scenery that includes o-pen, rolling plains at the southern end and rugged, precipitous mountains east and west of the lake. The paral-leling valleys adjacent to Lake Garda show elongated, dark features, which are shadows caused by the high, snow covered mountains. There is, however, a small lake (dark feature) in the valley immediately west of Lake Garda. The Italian cities of Verona (southeast of the lake) and Brescia (southwest of the lake) are in this scene but cannot be identified be-cause of the small scale of the image and the lack of contrast between the natural environment and the urban areas. The bottom third of the image shows a section of the broad alluvial plains of the Po River Valley.

STS081-717-066 Lake Garda, Italy January 1997
Image Science and Analysis Labora-tory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. 18 Mar. 2005. "Earth from Space - Image Information."