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Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier

The glacier is a popular tourist destination near Juneau, but each year there is less of it to see.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash. Story by Kathryn Hansen with science review by Christopher Shuman/UMBC/NASA GSFC.

Published August 10, 2023
Data acquired August 17, 1984 - July 28, 2023

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph