NEW DELHI: Around 10 am on Sunday, huge chunk of what is suspected to be a glacier in the Nanda Devi landscape broke and fell into the Dhauliganga river, one of several tributaries of the Ganga river, near Raini village in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. This created a massive wave of water, mud and rocks downstream.
The Indian Space Research Organisation‘s (ISRO) National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) has released a series of images relating to the Uttarakhand glacier burst.
The images, among other things, show the areas affected by the burst before and after the event, the extent of damages caused, cracks in the ice rock, etc.