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A Tale of Two Poles

The 2014 arctic sea ice minimum is the sixth lowest on record, while antarctic sea ice continues to exceed the record maximum extent.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water (GCOM-W1) satellite. Caption by Kate Ramsayer, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and Kathryn Hansen, NASA Earth Observatory.

Published September 24, 2014
Data acquired September 17, 2014

Source:
GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2
Topic:
Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Sea Ice Concentration