Melting on the Greenland Ice Cap, 2008 - related image preview

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Melting on the Greenland Ice Cap, 2008

The northern fringes of Greenland's ice sheet saw extreme melting in 2008, according to NASA scientist Marco Tedesco and his colleagues.


Map by Robert Simmon, based on DMSP SSM/I data from Marco Tedesco, City College of New York. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published February 25, 2009

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DMSP > SSM/I