The Alps in Europe covers more than 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in eight European countries and the cooler area of them has thousands of glaciers. Unfortunately, NASA's satellite has just received a 40 -year -old satellite in the larger ice of the Alps, which is a great glacier.
Images – See below and shooting in 1984 and 2024 – taken by the Landsat 5 of the NASA and Landsat 8 of Operational Land Imager (OLI) respectively, the change of length and width of the glacier is clear, which reflects the escape more than 4,300 feet (1,300 meters) in 40 years.
According to NASA's world releaseThe glacier was thin at that time. – Adjust about 141 feet (43 meters) or water according to the information from the Swiss ice network (Glamos). In other words, its footprints contracted in both dimensions.
Despite the clouds covered in the image of Noweer, the loss of ice is clear. Which the ice reflects the bright white back to the atmosphere with gray brown stones under According to the launch of NASA, it is still too fast in the year to capture the image of the glacier without seasonal snow covering the amount of melting ice that occurred in the past year.
Alpine glaciers are an Oberaletsch glacier board. The nearby has retreated more than 787 feet (240 meters) from 1984 and the retreat of the Firstcher glacier in the same period is 3,281 feet (1,000 meters) length.
According to the reporter's report Published At the end of last year, the Swiss glacier at the rate is higher than the average in 2024, despite the heavy snow in the winter and spring. Winter storms are not enough to resist the loss of ice in the heat in August – and even the size of the Sahara desert dust, which makes the Swiss ice cream more difficult to reflect the sun back to the atmosphere.
In 2024, the Swiss glacier is 2.5% of them following in Reuters. Central Europe, including Switzerland, loses 39% ice between 2000 to 2024 as a team of researchers. report In nature this year
The image of NASA makes those changes into a sharp relief. Out of the hot record in February – warm up In recording the ocean administration and the national atmosphere – there are truly concerns (And expectations) that we will see photos of more ice loss in the near future