Kolka Glacier Before Collapse

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NASA Earth Observatory images Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the Landsat Project Science Office and the USGS Earth Resources Data Center. Image analysis and story provided by Olga Tutubalina, Sergey Chernomorets and Dmitry Petrakov from the Moscow State University and the University Centre for Engineering Geodynamics and Monitoring. The scientists examined the new data along with a large archive of ground, and aerial imagery, as well as with their experience of ten field trips to the area both before and after the collapse.

Published April 24, 2005