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Data acquired September 3, 1988 720 x 480 JPEG
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Data acquired September 16, 2010 720 x 480 JPEG
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Perched high in the Andes, Peru’s Quelccaya Ice Cap stores centuries of climate change history in its ice. Its melting edges tell a more immediate climate story.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Michon Scott and Mike Carlowicz, with information from Dan Slayback and Dorothy Hall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and Lonnie Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center.
Published May 8, 2013 Data acquired September 16, 2010