True-color image of Tarso Tousside and Trou au Natron in Chad. The dark area in the center of the image is Tarso Tousside, a broad volcanic massif located at the western end of the Tibesti Mountain Range. Old lava flows visibly emanate from the summit to the west. Southeast of Tarso Tousside is the Trou au Natron caldera. This image was acquired on November 9, 2022, by the Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) aboard the ESA (European Space Agency) Sentinel-2A and -2B satellites. View this image in Worldview.
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Dataset: doi:10.5067/HLS/HLSS30.002
Reference: Tarso Tousside. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History. Global Volcanism Program.