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Glacial Retreat at a Non-glacial Pace

The HPS-12 glacier in Chile has lost about half of its length in three decades.


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

Published January 25, 2018
Data acquired January 27, 1985 - February 4, 2017

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI