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Greenland Ice Sheet Gets a Refresh

A moderately intense season of surface melting left part of the ice sheet dirty gray in summer 2025, but snowfall has since freshened its appearance.


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

Published September 13, 2025
Data acquired August 21 - September 6, 2025

Source:
Landsat 9 > OLI-2