The scar is what remains after chunks of ice and rock broke off a wall of ice in a rock slope failure from a glacier on the shoulder of Nanda Ghunti peak, satellite images show.
Dobhal, glaciologist at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology in Dehradun, says avalanche triggered by accumulated snow may have disturbed some loose debris holding a huge glacial lake.
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Scientists studying satellite imagery from before & after the disaster say a chunk of glacier appears to have crashed down a mountain, triggering a landslide & subsequent floods.
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Great information collected on scientists all over the world and also our own National Remote Sensing centre peeking into this disaster just through satellite images. Our Indian scientists are also actually visiting the area hope we get enough ground images of the area too (but the area is dangerous terrain).
Good images that served to educate but it would have been super if the National Remote Sensing image had also labelled the surrounding peaks in the image.
Great information collected on scientists all over the world and also our own National Remote Sensing centre peeking into this disaster just through satellite images. Our Indian scientists are also actually visiting the area hope we get enough ground images of the area too (but the area is dangerous terrain).
Good images that served to educate but it would have been super if the National Remote Sensing image had also labelled the surrounding peaks in the image.