Published on: 2025-06-12 05:15:29
The European Alps cover over 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) across eight European countries, and their cooler upper climes contain thousands of glaciers. Unfortunately, NASA satellite imagery recently captured 40 years of regression in the Alps’ largest chunk of ice, the Great Aletsch Glacier. The images—seen below, and taken in 1984 and 2024—were snapped by NASA’s Landsat 5’s Thematic Mapper and Landsat 8’s Operational Land Imager (OLI), respectively. The changes to the glacier’s length and widt
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