Approaching the 2011 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum

This animation shows Arctic sea ice shrinking to a near record minimum in the summer of 2011.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Approaching the 2011 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum.

NASA image and animation courtesy Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published September 22, 2011
Data acquired September 9, 2011