Shrinking Margins of Greenland

At least 200 of the island’s coastal glaciers have retreated over the past 20 years.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Inter-mission Time Series of Land Ice Velocity and Elevation (ITS_LIVE) project at NASA/JPL-Caltech, and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). Story by Calla Cofield, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with Mike Carlowicz.

Published January 2, 2021
Data acquired 1985 - 2015

Sources:

Landsat 7 > ETM+

Landsat 8 > OLI