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Arctic Sea Ice is More Modest than Maximal

Ice cover in the northern basin reached its annual maximum in late February, the third earliest in the satellite record.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Arctic Sea Ice is More Modest than Maximal.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Story by Roberto Molar-Candanosa, NASA’s Earth Science News Team.

Published March 23, 2022
Data acquired February 25, 2022