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New Map of Antarctica’s Icy Edge

This image shows the latest estimate of the ice edge around Law Promontory, which juts out from East Antarctica’s coastline near Stefansson Bay.


NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey and MOA and ASAID grounding line data provided courtesy of the ASAID team. Caption by Michon Scott and Kathryn Hansen.

Published July 23, 2010
Data acquired January 29, 2010

Source:
Landsat 7 > ETM+