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Antarctica Melts Under Its Hottest Days on Record

Ice caps and glaciers felt the heat as temperatures reached 18.3°C (64.9°F).

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Antarctica Melts Under Its Hottest Days on Record.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published February 21, 2020
Data acquired February 4 - 13, 2020