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Images from "Glaciers not on simple, upward trend of melting"
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|  | | Ian Howat/UW Applied Physics Lab | | Helheim glacier sweeps like a steely gray river of ice from the top of these
composite images down to where its leading edge meets an ice-filled bay, the
surface of which looks whiter than anything else in the images. Conditions
were such in 2005 that the glacier lost considerable amount of ice off its
leading edge or, as scientists say, it had retreated so the area of the bay
filled with ice is greater. Then the edge re-established itself in 2006. |
highest resolution version of this photo (print ready) |
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