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Mt. Kilimanjaro's vanishing snow cap. 2002

auteur: Nasa/USGS/Novapix

référence: t-aftan-00012

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 17 cm

The 11,000 year-old ice-cap on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro has almost completely disappeared ; 80% of the ice fields have been lost in only the last century, and some studies project that glaciers could be completely gone from Kilimanjaro by the year 2015.
Landsat imagery acquired on June 02 2002.  

Keywords for this photo:

2002 - AFRICA - CLIMATE - COMPARISON - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - GLACIER - GREENHOUSE EFFECT - ICE - KILIMANDJARO - KILIMANJARO - LANDSAT - LANDSAT-5 - SATELLITE IMAGE - TANZANIA - VOLCANO - WARMING -