File:Quelccaya Ice Cap on 2010 25 09.jpg

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English: Quelccaya Ice Cap on 2010 25 09. Satellite image using a combination of visible, near-infrared, and shortwave infrared light. Brick-colored land around the glacier is largely barren. Green patches indicate vegetation, mostly wetlands known as bofedales.
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Source http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80925
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NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Michon Scott and Mike Carlowicz, with information from Dan Slayback and Dorothy Hall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and Lonnie Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center.

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