For ten days in spring 2018, scientists flew over numerous Alaskan glaciers.
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The moraines of Malaspina glacier display a dizzying pattern of curves, zigzags, and loops.
While most glaciers in southeast Alaska are losing an astounding amount of ice, this glacier has been relatively stable.
More than 30 years of ice velocity data are helping scientists tease out how mountain glaciers respond to climate change.
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NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission concluded its 2016 airborne campaign in Greenland.
Glaciers in a region of Alaska are losing about 75 billion tons of ice per year, but not all glaciers contribute equally.
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The looping medial moraines on Tajikistan’s Bivachny glacier offer a clue of periods when it surged rapidly forward.
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.
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Acquired March 29, 2011, this photograph shows canyons along the coast of northwestern Greenland.
Natural processes and human-caused warming have combined to bring rapid change to a glacier in southeastern Alaska.
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This tidewater glacier in southeast Alaska is not like the others; it’s advancing, and threatens to transform a fjord into a lake.
Acquired June 5, 2011, this natural-color image shows Roze Glacier on the coast of Novaya Zemlya, Russia.
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