Tasman Glacier 2017
New Zealand's Tasman Glacier on January 29,2017,taken by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA's Terra satellite. Compare with JG5750 from 1990,to see how the glacier is receding. In this false-color image,white is snow and ice,red is vegetation,blue is water,and brown is soil (including moraines and sediment-covered glaciers).
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Photo credit: © Science History Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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