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Retreat of Yakutat Glacier

Natural processes and human-caused warming have combined to bring rapid change to a glacier in southeastern Alaska.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland

Published August 20, 2014
Data acquired August 22, 1987 - August 13, 2013

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI