GRACE Antarctic Data, 2003-2014 (IMAGE)

Princeton University

GRACE Antarctic Data, 2003-2014

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Princeton University researchers "weighed" Antarctica's ice sheet using gravitational satellite data and found that from 2003 to 2014, the ice sheet lost 92 billion tons of ice per year.

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Image by Christopher Harig, Department of Geosciences

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