Fast-Flowing Glaciers Thin Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets

To understand how fast-moving glaciers are changing the ice sheets, scientists devised a method to map elevation change using data from ICESat.

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Images by Hamish D. Pritchard, Robert J. Arthern, David G. Vaughan, and Laura A. Edwards, British Antarctic Survey and University of Bristol. Published in Nature. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published October 3, 2009
Data acquired January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2007

Source:

ICESat > GLAS