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Keeping Tabs on North Cascades Glaciers

Scientists use satellites in orbit and boots on the ice to monitor glacial changes on the flanks of Mount Baker and elsewhere in Washington state.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story and photographs by Karin Kirk, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Published September 19, 2024
Data acquired August 9, 2024

Sources:
Landsat 9 > OLI-2
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Applied Sciences