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The ice stream's speed-up and near-doubling of the ice flow from land into the ocean has increased the rate of sea level rise by about .06 millimeters (about .002 inches) per year, or roughly 4 percent of the 20th century rate of sea level increase. || ", "release_date": "2007-01-05T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:46.070626-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 509512, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003630/Jakobshavn_2009_sm2.21911.jpg", "filename": "Jakobshavn_2009_sm2.21911.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "In this image, the location of the successive calving fronts of the Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier between 1851 and 2009 are overlain on a Landsat image from 7/29/2009.", "width": 1200, "height": 1000, "pixels": 1200000 }, "main_video": { "id": 2, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a001700/a001703/4559_Kepler_Neptune_Twitter_720.mp4", "filename": "4559_Kepler_Neptune_Twitter_720.mp4", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 }, "progress": "Complete", "media_groups": [ { "id": 357479, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3630/#media_group_357479", "widget": "Basic text with HTML", "title": "", "caption": "", "description": "Jakobshavn Isbrae is located on the west coast of Greenland at Latitude 69 N. 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