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Early Melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet

In 2016, surface melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet started early and fast.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published July 1, 2016
Data acquired June 15, 2016

Sources:
EO-1 > ALI
Landsat 8 > OLI