Melt Ponds on Glacier in Central-West Greenland (IMAGE)

University of California - Irvine

Melt Ponds on Glacier in Central-West Greenland

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An aerial photograph taken Sept. 10 shows melt ponds formed in the crevasses of the highly deformed ice on the surface of Jakobshavn Glacier in central-west Greenland. A recent study by scientists at UCI and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory found that the large land mass lost 600 billion tons of ice in the summer of 2019, raising global sea levels by 2.2 millimeters.

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Linette Boisvert / NASA

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