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In 2015, the annual maximum extent of Antarctic sea ice dropped below previous consecutive years of record highs.
NASA Earth Observatory maps 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 and the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on the Nimbus-7 satellite. NASA Earth Observatory chart by Joshua Stevens, using data from the National Snow & Ice Data Center. Caption by Kathryn Hansen, adapted from materials by Maria-José Viñas.
Published October 18, 2015 Data acquired October 6, 2015