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Taking Stock of Edgy Parts of Greenland

Loss of ice at the periphery of the Greenland Ice Sheet was often discounted; recent research suggests it should not be.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Khan, S. A., et al. (2022). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published September 30, 2022
Data acquired 2003 - 2021

Sources:
ICESat > GLAS
ICESat-2 > ATLAS