Heimdal Glacier (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Heimdal Glacier

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The texture on the surface of flowing ice, such as Heimdal Glacier in southern Greenland, allows Landsat 8 to map nearly all the flowing ice in the world.

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NASA/John Sonntag

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