Tour Of The Cryosphere

  • Released Tuesday, October 18, 2011
  • Updated Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 12:35PM
  • ID: 10840

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The vast majority of the world's fresh water is frozen in ice sheets, glaciers and snow caps.

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The cryosphere includes snow caps and glaciers in mountains, such as those indicated by yellow dots here in the Andes.

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Landsat-7 captured this aftermath of the Larsen-B ice shelf collapse, one of the most dramatic cryospheric changes ever observed.

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The Jakobshavn ice stream, in the middle of this Greenland coastline visualization, delivers ice to the ocean at an increasing rate.

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Kangerlussuaq Fjord in western Greenland seen from a plane; one of the many dramatic cryospheric landscapes satellites can't capture.



Credits

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Photograph of Kangerlussuaq Fiord in Western Greenland, courtesy of NASA/GSFC/Michael Studinger



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