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This glacier was featured on a postcard in 1900. A satellite captured where it is today.

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The Pasterze glacier in Austria 's Eastern Alps was featured on a postcard in 1900 .

A satellite captured where it is today .

The glacier lost half of its mass between 1851 and 2008 .

It is estimated that the glacier has retracted by 980 feet since the park first opened in 1963 .

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English

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35

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