NASA satellite missions track 16 years of Earth’s melting ice sheets
01 May 2020
The amount of ice gained or lost by Antarctica between 2003 and 2019. The ice lost near the coasts (dark reds and purples), especially West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula, vastly outweighs gains in the interior (blues). The circle in the middle is over the South Pole where the instrument does not collect data. (Courtesy: B Smith et al/Science)
Losses from the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland in the last 16 years have far outpaced snow a
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