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Quelccaya Ice Cap Then and Now

Ice cores and satellite images are helping preserve the history of a disappearing ice cap in the Peruvian Andes.


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

Published November 27, 2023
Data acquired September 3, 1988 - October 22, 2023

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI