Terrain texture

Rock and ice walls forming a complex landscape in the Moma range, Russia. Seen here by the radar instrument aboard Sentinel-1 satellite, with slight distortions introduced by the signal interaction with the articulated terrain. These effects can observed in the displaced peak and base locations of mountains and formation of artificial shadows relative to the angle of observation.

Raw open-data courtesy of ESA & Copernicus. Data and image processing in gee, qgis, gimp.