Data acquired September 2, 1973
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A Half-Century of Loss in Northwest Greenland

A pair of Landsat images acquired 49 years apart reveals where the region’s glaciers and ice caps have retreated and narrowed.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A Half-Century of Loss in Northwest Greenland.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published August 30, 2022
Data acquired September 2, 1973 - August 20, 2022