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Cyclonic winds help state-sized areas of sea ice go missing from the middle of the ice pack around Antarctica.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published May 29, 2019
Data acquired September 25, 2017

Source:
Terra > MODIS