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Ice Lost, Island Found?

An unnamed mound of white off East Antarctica seems to be an island.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and ICESat-2 data from the National Snow & Ice Center. Story by Kathryn Hansen, with information from Christopher Shuman (NASA GSFC/UMBC JCET).

Published April 27, 2022
Data acquired November 15, 1989 - January 9, 2022

Sources:
ICESat-2 > ATLAS
Landsat 4 > TM
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI