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Zachariæ Isstrøm Glacier, Greenland

Starting in 2012, a large glacier in northeast Greenland broke loose and entered a phase of accelerated retreat.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Brian Bell (UCI) and Alan Buis (JPL), adapted for Earth Observatory by Kathryn Hansen.

Published December 4, 2015
Data acquired 1999 - 2015

Sources:
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI