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Microwave Sea Ice

NASA's Aqua satellite used microwaves to capture this snapshot of Arctic sea ice on September 3, 2010.


Visualization created by Cindy Starr and Trent Schindler, Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio. MODIS imagery by Jesse Allen, working with data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Kathryn Hansen, NASA Earth Science News Team, and Mike Carlowicz, Earth Observatory.

Published September 14, 2010
Data acquired September 3, 2010

Sources:
Aqua > AMSR-E
Aqua > MODIS