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A Great Freeze Over the Great Lakes

Ice cover surpassed 80 percent for the first time in 20 years.


Aqua MODIS images courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Landsat image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Kathryn Hansen, NASA’s Earth Science News Team, with Mike Carlowicz.

Published February 21, 2014
Data acquired February 19, 2014

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Landsat 8 > OLI