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Losing a Layer of Protection

An early summer heatwave set up a cluster of glaciers in the Central Andes for accelerated melting.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published June 14, 2022
Data acquired November 28, 2021 - January 15, 2022

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI