Bear Glacier, Alaska, USA
Bear Glacier, Alaska, USA

Satellite images of Earth help us observe locations that can be diffic...

Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier, Iceland
Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier, Iceland

The Breiðamerkurjökull glacier tongue, one of the largest in Iceland, ...

Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica

One of the most studied ice shelves in Antarctica has recently seen bi...

Columbia Glacier, Alaska, USA
Columbia Glacier, Alaska, USA

Some landscape changes around the world happen at glacial pace—very sl...

Filchner Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Filchner Ice Shelf, Antarctica

These images show the Filchner Ice Shelf on the coast of Antarctica th...

Hubbard Glacier, Alaska, USA
Hubbard Glacier, Alaska, USA

Unlike many glaciers in Alaska and around the world, Hubbard Glacier i...

Landsat’s Return Beam Vidicon
Landsat’s Return Beam Vidicon

A sensor on the early Landsats had a name worthy of some Star Trek gad...

Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

These images show the famous “snows of Kilimanjaro” in 1976, 2000, 201...

Petermann Glacier, Greenland
Petermann Glacier, Greenland

Petermann Glacier made headline news in 2010 and again in 2012 when la...

Svalbard, Norway
Svalbard, Norway

Fourteen tidewater glaciers flow into Hornsund Fjord, on the southern ...

Verdi Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Verdi Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Ice shelves surround about three-fourths of Antarctica’s coastline. Th...