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Shrinking Margins of Greenland

At least 200 of the island’s coastal glaciers have retreated over the past 20 years.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Inter-mission Time Series of Land Ice Velocity and Elevation (ITS_LIVE) project at NASA/JPL-Caltech, and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). Story by Calla Cofield, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with Mike Carlowicz.

Published January 2, 2021
Data acquired 1985 - 2015

Sources:
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI