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Exploring Mount Everest’s Ice

For one NASA scientist, studying one of Everest’s glaciers with satellites meant going there in person.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using data from NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Photograph by Kimberly Casey. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published August 10, 2013
Data acquired November 29, 2005

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