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After seven months encased in snow and ice, the delta emerges for the short Arctic summer.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen with image interpretation by Ingmar Nitze/Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and Hajo Eicken/University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Published June 14, 2019 Data acquired June 3 - 10, 2019