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Southern Antarctic Peninsula

Approaching the icy continent by aircraft, the vast expanse of water and ice is suddenly broken by gray and brown rocky mountaintops


NASA photograph courtesy of NASA/Nathan Kurtz (top) and IceBridge Digital Mapping System (middle and bottom). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published December 28, 2017
Data acquired November 3, 2017

Sources:
Aircraft Sensors > DMS
Photograph