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Gains at Hofsjökull Ice Cap

An ice cap in Iceland’s central highlands has gained mass for the first time since 1993.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens and Jeff Schmaltz, using mass balance data courtesy of Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson, Icelandic Met Office and MODIS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published November 18, 2015
Data acquired November 9, 2015

Source:
Terra > MODIS