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Shrinking Ålfotbreen

Resting atop a shingled sandstone landscape, the Norwegian glacier has been in decline since the late 1990s.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Emily Cassidy.

Published January 22, 2024
Data acquired August 23, 2003 - September 4, 2022

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 9 > OLI-2