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A Second Massive Ice Avalanche in Tibet

In a rare event, two glaciers just a few kilometers apart in the Aru Range have collapsed in spectacular fashion.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens and Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016) processed by the European Space Agency, and ASTER data from NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published October 21, 2016
Data acquired June 24, 2016

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Sentinel-1A
Sentinel-2
Terra > ASTER