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Cyclonic winds help state-sized areas of sea ice go missing from the middle of the ice pack around Antarctica.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Deciphering the Maud Rise Polynya.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published May 29, 2019
Data acquired September 25, 2017

Source:: Terra > MODIS