An island at the mouth of Upernavik Glacier on the northwest coast of Greenland, photographed during the September 2016 field campaign of Oceans Melting Greenland.
An island at the mouth of Upernavik Glacier on the northwest coast of Greenland, photographed during the September 2016 field campaign of Oceans Melting Greenland. Until 1950, this glacier had one outlet, or terminus, to the ocean. Now, it has melted and retreated up its fjord so far that it has several different termini. In this image, one terminus is at upper left and another hidden by the rock wall at upper center.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech