Glacial Retreat in Chilean Patagonia - related image preview

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Glacial Retreat in Chilean Patagonia

The San Quintín Glacier is the largest outflow glacier of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field in southern Chile. Like many glaciers worldwide during the twentieth century, San Quintín appears to be losing mass and possibly retreating.


Images STS068-260-73 and ISS004-E-7267 were provided by the Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory at Johnson Space Center. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA-JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.

Published March 31, 2002
Data acquired October 10, 1994 - March 7, 2002

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Astronaut Photography