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Watching a Glacier Die

Without enough fresh snow to replenish it, Alaska’s Yakutat Glacier is in trouble.


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

Published November 26, 2018
Data acquired August 22, 1987 - September 21, 2018

Sources:
Landsat 5
Landsat 8 > OLI