Southernmost Seasonal Sea Ice in the Northern Hemisphere

The Sea of Okhotsk is the lowest latitude area where sea ice forms each winter.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Southernmost Seasonal Sea Ice in the Northern Hemisphere.

NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published January 11, 2015
Data acquired January 4, 2015