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Retreat of the Columbia Glacier

The recent retreat of the glacier’s West Branch took scientists by surprise.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published October 31, 2014
Data acquired July 2, 2014

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI
Topic:
Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Glaciers