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A Longer-Lived Ice Arch

The natural sea ice structure west of Greenland stuck around longer than usual in 2021, despite a recent trend toward earlier breakups.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A Longer-Lived Ice Arch.

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

Published July 14, 2021
Data acquired June 6 - July 6, 2021

Sources:: Map; Terra > MODIS