An unnamed ISS crew member captured this stunning image of striped glaciers merging into a single mass of ice in the Karakoram mountain range. (Image credit: NASA/ISS)
This stunning image taken by an astronaut shows three “unusual” ice formations joining together in the heart of Central Asia. These striped glaciers are bucking the global trend by expanding despite the effects of human-caused climate change.
The aerial photograph shows the merging of the Lolofond (top) and Teram Shehr (bottom) glaciers with the Siachen Glacier (center), as well as a smaller, unnamed tributary glacier. These ice formations are in the Karakoram mountain range, a largely uninhabited region that runs along the Himalayas in Kashmir, where the borders of India, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan meet.
Siachen is the second longest glacier on Earth after Greenland and Antarctica. It is approximately 76 kilometers long and 3.5 kilometers wide at its widest point, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. The glacier starts at about 5,800 meters above sea level, while its end point is about 3,600 meters.
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