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The Advance of Hubbard Glacier

This tidewater glacier in southeast Alaska is not like the others; it’s advancing, and threatens to transform a fjord into a lake.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens and Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and Hubbard Glacier data provided by Marcy Davis of The University of Texas at Austin. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published May 20, 2015
Data acquired July 13, 2002 - July 22, 2014

Sources:
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI