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Glacial Losses in the Swiss Alps

Images bridging four decades show where Switzerland’s largest glacier and its neighbors have been losing ice.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Glacial Losses in the Swiss Alps.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen with image interpretation by Christopher Shuman, UMBC (retired).

Published March 14, 2025
Data acquired September 2, 1984 - August 6, 2024

Sources:: Landsat 5 > TM; Landsat 8 > OLI