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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