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“Snow Swamp” on Lowell Glacier

A large expanse of snow on the Canadian glacier melted in just four days due to warm temperatures.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018) processed by the European Space Agency. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published September 6, 2018
Data acquired July 22 - 26, 2018

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Sentinel-2