Satellite Image Of Antarctica From Landsat 8

Glaciers shrinking has become a huge ecological problem over the last decades. Satellite images help to observe and monitor this process assisting in United Nations Environment Programme activities within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

As it is reported, deglaciation reached its peak level in 2006 and the ice loss keeps going up with a rate of 20 inches per year. The imagery obtained on march 7, 2018 by Landsat-8 satellite displays the area of Antarctic ice shield close to the southern part of Argentina.