Melting on the Greenland Ice Cap, 2008

The northern fringes of Greenland's ice sheet saw extreme melting in 2008, according to NASA scientist Marco Tedesco and his colleagues.

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Map by Robert Simmon, based on DMSP SSM/I data from Marco Tedesco, City College of New York. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published February 25, 2009

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DMSP > SSM/I