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Over the past three decades, India’s Kokthang glacier has been retreating and a nearby lake has doubled in size.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published April 26, 2019
Data acquired November 5, 1990 - November 18, 2018

Sources:
Landsat 5
Landsat 8
Landsat 8 > OLI