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Data acquired June 1, 2001 540 x 334 JPEG
Data acquired June 1, 2001 3258 x 3258 6 MB - JPEG
Data acquired June 1, 2001 3400 x 3400 28 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired June 1, 2001 40 KB - KML/KMZ
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For many years, scientists have expected that climate change will be more rapid and dramatic at the poles than at lower latitudes, an expectation that has been demonstrated both with climate models and recent observations of snow and ice, surface temperatures, vegetation, and permafrost.
NASA image by Robert Simmon, based on Landsat-7 data from the Global Land Cover Facility.
Published February 1, 2007 Data acquired June 1, 2001