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Description: The Baltoro Glacier, Karakoram Range, Northern Pakistan, one of the largest valley glaciers on earth. The world's second highest mountain, K2, is at the top centre. The main glacier appears unchanged over this short interval. The small Liligo tributary glacier shows some advance (bottom left). Stacked NASA World Wind images from the 1990 and 2000 NASA GeoCover collections (Landsat 4/5 and Landsat 7 TM/ETM false-colour images [1]). worldwind://goto/world=Earth&lat=35.73017&lon=76.39691&alt=27755&dir=24.1&tilt=49.1 (This is an animated GIF image. If animation is not visible, it may be because Microsoft Office Pictute Manager has your GIF file association. That application does not support GIF animation. Change the association to any standard picture viewer, and restart your browser.)
Title: Baltoro Glacier animation
Credit: Own work. Made with NASA World Wind from NASA public domain imagery
Author: Glen Fergus
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
License: CC-BY-SA-3.0
License Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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