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Breakup at Land Glacier

In March 2022, old sea ice crumbled away as new ice formed off the coast of Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen with input from Christopher Shuman (UMBC/GSFC), Michael Lowe (USNIC), and Frazer Christie (U. Cambridge).

Published April 2, 2022
Data acquired February 24 - March 23, 2022

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Terra > MODIS