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Melt ponds on the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet are an important indicator of the strength of the 2013 melt season.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat 8 data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
Published July 9, 2013 Data acquired June 21, 2013