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Antarctic Sea Ice is Lean and Green

It may look like someone dyed the water green for St. Patrick’s Day, but the green hue visible off the coast of Antarctica is entirely natural.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published March 9, 2017
Data acquired March 5, 2017

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI