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A Bit Less Excelsior

Over the past two decades, an Alaskan glacier has melted into a lake more than five times the size of Central Park.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published May 23, 2019
Data acquired October 16, 1986 - October 31, 2018

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI