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Pools of water grow on top of the ice sheet in summer, then sometimes disappear quickly. That water flushes out through glacial plumbing, carrying sediment and massive volumes of fresh water to the sea.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Mike Carlowicz, with interpretation help from Sarah Das, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Marco Tedesco, City University of New York.

Published March 21, 2013
Data acquired June 3 - August 17, 2010

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