Patagonia Glacier retreat, Chile Patagonia, Chile. Left: September 18, 1986. Right: August 5, 2002. The 1986 image shows the region prior to a major retreat of the glaciers. The 2002 image shows a retreat of nearly 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) of the glacier on the left side. The smaller glacier on the right has receded more than 2 kilometers (1.2 miles). In front of the smaller glacier, two ribbon lakes have formed behind the debris left by the glacier’s advance. Scientists and government managers are using satellite imagery like this to monitor the retreat of the glaciers and the impact on water bodies caused by the changes in the glaciers’ size and direction. The post Patagonia Glacier retreat, Chile first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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NASA Supercomputers Take on Life Near Greenland’s Most Active Glacier As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of JPL and MIT that’s been called a laboratory in itself. Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kicking nutrients up from the ocean depths and boosting phytoplankton growth, a new NASA-supported study has found. Reporting in […] The post NASA Supercomputers Take on Life Near Greenland’s Most Active Glacier first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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Polar Tourists Give Positive Reviews to NASA Citizen Science in Antarctica Citizen science projects result in an overwhelmingly positive impact on the polar tourism experience. That’s according to a new paper analyzing participant experiences in the first two years of FjordPhyto, a NASA Citizen Science project..   The FjordPhyto citizen science project invites travelers onboard expedition cruise vessels to gather data and samples during the polar summer […] The post Polar Tourists Give Positive Reviews to NASA Citizen Science in Antarctica first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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