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Glacier Flour in Greenland Skies

Satellites captured a rare image of a plume of dusty glacial flour streaming from eastern Greenland.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018) processed by the European Space Agency. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published October 17, 2018
Data acquired September 21 - 30, 2018

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Sentinel-2