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Glaciers Flow into a Greenland Valley
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Glaciers Flow into a Greenland Valley

These true-color images show wide-area and close-up views of glaciers flowing into a largely dry, linear valley in western Greenland on August 29, 2009.

Published Sep 13, 2009

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Bhutan, Himalayas
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Bhutan, Himalayas

One of the highest mountain reliefs on Earth can be found in this tiny country sandwiched between eastern India and the Tibetan plateau,

Published Oct 11, 2005

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Obersulzbach Glacier Plus Four
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Obersulzbach Glacier Plus Four

The retreat of one of Austria’s largest glaciers has stranded some of its tributaries, now classified as separate glaciers.

Published Jul 3, 2015

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A Sign of Surging on Bivachny Glacier
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A Sign of Surging on Bivachny Glacier

The looping medial moraines on Tajikistan’s Bivachny glacier offer a clue of periods when it surged rapidly forward.

Published Mar 17, 2015

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College Fjord, Alaska
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College Fjord, Alaska

Published Jan 3, 2006

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Okjökull Remembered
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Okjökull Remembered

The glacier atop Iceland’s Ok volcano was declared dead in 2014. Satellite images show the latter stages of its decline.

Published Aug 9, 2019

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Viedma Glacier, Argentina
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Viedma Glacier, Argentina

The icefields of Patagonia, located at the southern end of South America, are the largest masses of ice in the temperate Southern Hemisphere (approximately 55,000 square kilometers).

Published May 8, 2006

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Malaspina on the Move
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Malaspina on the Move

More than 30 years of ice velocity data are helping scientists tease out how mountain glaciers respond to climate change.

Published Sep 11, 2019

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Elephant Foot Glacier
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Elephant Foot Glacier

A piedmont-type glacier fans out across a plain in northeast Greenland.

Published Feb 20, 2015

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Ice Loss Slows Down Asian Glaciers
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Ice Loss Slows Down Asian Glaciers

Melting and thinning of high-mountain glaciers makes them flow less due to gravity.

Published Dec 14, 2018

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Turkish Glaciers
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Turkish Glaciers

In southeastern Turkey, glaciers slide down bowl-shaped valleys amidst a shadowy landscape of cirques and arêtes.

Published Oct 13, 2012

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Exploring Mount Everest’s Ice
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Exploring Mount Everest’s Ice

For one NASA scientist, studying one of Everest’s glaciers with satellites meant going there in person.

Published Aug 10, 2013

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Losing Ice in Svalbard
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Losing Ice in Svalbard

Several tidewater glaciers in the southern part of Spitsbergen are retreating because of rising air temperatures.

Published Jun 25, 2018

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Stable Fedchenko
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Stable Fedchenko

Precipitation increases and a layer of debris on the terminus have helped maintain the longest mid-latitude glacier.

Published Jan 5, 2015

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Rhone Glacier, Switzerland
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Rhone Glacier, Switzerland

Published Oct 29, 2006

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Grosser Aletschgletscher
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Grosser Aletschgletscher

Great Aletsch in Switzerland is the largest glacier in Europe.

Published Oct 3, 2016

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Glacier Outlet, Southern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile
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Glacier Outlet, Southern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile

This astronaut photograph shows the merged outlet of two glaciers within the deep fjords of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field.

Published Oct 5, 2009

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Taylor Valley, Antarctica
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Taylor Valley, Antarctica

Home to Taylor Glacier, striking rock outcrops, and Blood Falls, this dry valley in Antarctica is one of the most remote and geologically exotic places on the planet.

Published Dec 8, 2013

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Ice on the Move in Patagonia
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Ice on the Move in Patagonia

The glaciers of Patagonia are some of the fastest and most erosive on Earth.

Published Jul 14, 2017

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Retreat of the Gangotri Glacier
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Retreat of the Gangotri Glacier

Currently 30.2 km long and between 0.5 and 2.5 km wide, Gangotri glacier is one of the largest in the Himalaya. Gangotri has been receding since 1780, although studies show its retreat quickened after 1971.

Published Jun 23, 2004

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Johns Hopkins Glacier
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Johns Hopkins Glacier

While most glaciers in southeast Alaska are losing an astounding amount of ice, this glacier has been relatively stable.

Published Jun 30, 2020

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Nearing the Limit of Retreat
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Nearing the Limit of Retreat

One branch of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier seems to have retreated as far as it can, while the other still has some distance to go.

Published Aug 29, 2019

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Animating the “Karakoram Anomaly”
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Animating the “Karakoram Anomaly”

With satellite eyes, the complex motion of glaciers becomes apparent.

Published Jan 7, 2016

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Länta Glacier: Small and Getting Smaller
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Länta Glacier: Small and Getting Smaller

Like many glaciers around the world, this glacier in the Swiss Alps is shrinking.

Published Apr 1, 2019

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Malaspina Glacier, Alaska
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Malaspina Glacier, Alaska

The moraines of Malaspina glacier display a dizzying pattern of curves, zigzags, and loops.

Published Oct 11, 2015

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North Cascades National Park
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North Cascades National Park

Over 300 glaciers, about one-third of the glaciers in the Lower 48 states, lie within the park boundaries.

Published May 7, 2006

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