Annual Peak of Arctic Sea Ice Hit a Record Low

The Arctic ice cap grew less this winter than at any time since satellites have measured it.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Annual Peak of Arctic Sea Ice Hit a Record Low.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR-2) sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water (GCOM-W1) satellite and the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on the Nimbus-7 satellite. Caption by Maria-José Viñas, adapted for Earth Observatory by Kathryn Hansen.

Published April 8, 2016
Data acquired March 24, 2016

Source:: GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2