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Data acquired October 2, 1989
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Data acquired October 15, 2017
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Länta Glacier: Small and Getting Smaller

Like many glaciers around the world, this glacier in the Swiss Alps is shrinking.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Länta Glacier: Small and Getting Smaller.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Photos courtesy of Archive VAW/ETH Zürich (Bernard Riedi AWN/GR). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published April 1, 2019
Data acquired October 2, 1989 - October 15, 2017

Sources:: Landsat 5 > TM; Landsat 8 > OLI; Photograph; Space Shuttle > SRTM