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This image shows the area surrounding Mount Rainier in Washington. Mount Rainier is a volcano in Washington state. In this image, pale green regions are areas of forests, blue and purple regions are areas of bare ground or clear-cut forests, and white and green regions are areas of ice. The round cone at the center of the image is the active volcano Mount Rainier, which reaches a peak elevation of 4399 m (14,435 ft). The image shows the White River (at the top) , the Nisqually River (on the bottom right) , and the Carbon River (on the left) . The dark patch at the top right of the image is Bumping Lake. The image was obtained by SIR-C/X-SAR on the Space Shuttle Endeavour on October 1, 1994 and shows an area about 59 km (37 mi) on a side.