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New Rift on Petermann Glacier

Glaciologists are watching a new crack that has formed on a glacier in northwest Greenland.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens and Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. IceBridge DMS imagery by NASA/Gary Hoffmann, courtesy of the Digital Mapping System (DMS) team. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published April 19, 2017
Data acquired April 14, 2017

Sources:
Aircraft Sensors > DMS
Landsat 8 > OLI