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Retreating glaciers in the high arctic have left behind heaps of debris and new territory for cold-loving plants to colonize.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Adam Voiland. Congratulations to Dillion and Eric J.F. Kelijssen for solving the puzzler the fastest.

Published January 18, 2014
Data acquired June 12, 2013

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EO-1 > ALI