Arctic Sea Ice: Record Low Wintertime Maximum Extent For 2nd Straight Year (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Arctic Sea Ice: Record Low Wintertime Maximum Extent For 2nd Straight Year

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Arctic sea ice was at a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second straight year. At 5.607 million square miles, it is the lowest maximum extent in the satellite record, and 431,000 square miles below the 1981 to 2010 average maximum extent.

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Credits: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio/C. Starr

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