A Tale of Two Poles

The 2014 arctic sea ice minimum is the sixth lowest on record, while antarctic sea ice continues to exceed the record maximum extent.

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NASA Earth Observatory images 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. Caption by Kate Ramsayer, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and Kathryn Hansen, NASA Earth Observatory.

Published September 24, 2014
Data acquired September 17, 2014

Source:

GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2

Topic:

Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Sea Ice Concentration