Weddell Sea Ice (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Weddell Sea Ice

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Sea ice of different thickness and bumpiness is broken up by the cracks between floes, called leads, in this graph of photon returns from ICESat-2 as it orbits over the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.

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NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens

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