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Warm Winds Trigger Melting in Antarctica

Unusual late-season events could produce long-term changes to the snowpack on the Larsen C ice shelf.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and using Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) data from the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published April 11, 2019
Data acquired March 3, 2016

Sources:
Aircraft Sensors > Camera
DEM
Landsat 8 > OLI