Two Years of Polar Ice Coverage (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Caption

Ice cover ebbs and flows through the seasons in the Arctic (left) and the Antarctic (right). Overall, ice cover has declined since scientists started tracking it half a century ago.

Credit

Trent Schindler/NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio

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