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Ice Loss From Jakobshavn Glacier

Greenland’s fastest-moving glacier sheds more ice, and continues to retreat at galloping speeds.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published August 20, 2015
Data acquired July 31 - August 16, 2015

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI