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Polar Sea Ice at Record Lows

In 2017, the Arctic maximum and Antarctic minimum extents of sea ice plunged to record lows.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water (GCOM-W1) satellite and the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on the Nimbus-7 satellite. Caption by Maria-José Viñas, adapted for Earth Observatory by Kathryn Hansen.

Published March 23, 2017
Data acquired March 3 - 7, 2017

Sources:
DMSP > SSM/I
DMSP > SSMIS
GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2
Nimbus 7 > SMMR