Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Maximum Extent

This map shows sea ice extent around Antarctica on September 22, 2013, when ice covered more of the Southern Ocean than at any other time in the satellite record.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water (GCOM-W1) satellite. Sea ice extent graphs by Jesse allen, based on NSIDC data. Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Walt Meier and Claire Parkinson, NASA GSFC.

Published October 1, 2013
Data acquired September 22, 2013

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GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2