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Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

In West Antarctica, Pine Island Bay (along right center edge on Nov. 4; roughly centered in other images) carves deeply into the Walgreen (left) and Eights (right) Coasts. Eights Coasts terminates in the Abbott Ice Shelf, which is sandwiched between the continent and Thurston Island. The Walker Mountains on Thurston Island rise up out of the surrounding ice shelf (center). These images were acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite.


Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published November 20, 2002
Data acquired October 31 - 31, 2002

Source:
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
MODIS Rapid Response