2020 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum at Second Lowest on Record (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

2020 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum at Second Lowest on Record

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In the Arctic Ocean, sea ice reached its minimum extent of 1.44 million square miles (3.74 million square kilometers) on Sept. 15 - the second-lowest extent since modern record keeping began.

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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

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