A Polynya Seldom Seen

A patch of open water made a rare appearance amid winter sea ice in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A Polynya Seldom Seen.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published September 1, 2016
Data acquired August 14, 2016

Source:: Aqua > MODIS