Before-and-After Satellite Images Show Upsetting Glacier Loss in Swiss Alps

There are thousands of glaciers in the European Alps eight European countries, 600 miles (1000 kilometers) and more cool glaciers. Unfortunately, NASA satellite images recently seized a 40-year regression in the Great Aletsch glacier of the Alps.

The pictures seen in the following and in 1984 and 2024 were drawn by the Thematic Mapper and Landsat 8 of NASA Landsat 5 with Operation Land Facilities (OLI). The length and narrow changes in the glacier appears visible to the withdrawal of more than 4,300 feet (1,300 meters) in 40 years.

According to a NASA Earth Observatory releaseThe glacier is also thinner in this process, according to the Swiss monitoring network (glamos), about 141 feet (43 meters) water (43 meters). In other words, its footprints shrunk in both sizes.

Ice loss is clear in the new image, despite some cloud cover. Where the ice once moved towards the atmosphere of the bright white, there is a gray-brown rock. According to NASA, the images of the glacier during the year were very early to imagine the glacial melting in the handsome years.

Alpine glaciers retreat on board. The nearby Oberaletsch Buzier has laid back from 787 feet (240 meters) since 1984, and at the same time the retreat of Fiescher Glacier, 3281 meters (1000 meters).

According to Reuters Report published Last year, Switzerland’s glaciers melted in 2024, despite the strong snow in winter and spring. Winter storms, a dose of ice in front of a hottest August and even the area of ​​the field, and even a dose of field field layers, it made the sunshine more difficult to reflect the sunshine to the atmosphere.

In 2024, Switzerland’s glaciers, Reuters, Swiss glaciers lost 2.5% of the volume. Central Europe, including Switzerland, 2000 and 2024 lost 39% of glacial ice, as a team of researchers declare this year in nature.

NASA images put these changes to a sharp relief. A hot warm February-the pleasant According to the National Ocean and atmosphere administration, we will see more photos of glacial loss in the near future.