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Undercutting Sverdrup Glacier

Warming seas are accelerating the retreat of Greenland’s coastal glaciers.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and data courtesy of Wood, M. et al. (2021). Story by Kathryn Hansen and Ian O’Neill.

Published January 26, 2021
Data acquired 2000 - 2020

Sources:
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI