Swiss Glacier Crash: Esa Satellite Showed Slope movements...

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An analysis of satellite images shows slope deformations at the Kleine Nesthorn near the Bergdorf Blatten, which are becoming faster and faster over the years.

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Early signs of Blatten's collapse (VS) were already visible from the years before the disaster. As shown by an analysis of satellite images from the European Space Agency (ESA), the slope of the Petit Nesthorn was already moving in 2016.

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From space, warning signs for the mountain crash in the village of Blatten in the Swiss canton of Valais were already visible years before the disaster. As a new analysis of satellite images by the European Space Agency ESA shows, the slope of the Kleine Nesthorn moved already in 2016. These movements continued to increase over the years and increased significantly until the mountain crash this year, as the ESA announced on Friday. Hang movement…