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Sea ice is seen out the window of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft as it flies 2,000 feet above the Bellingshausen Sea...
Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas, has been...
As the northern hemisphere experiences the heat of summer, ice moves and melts in the Arctic waters and the far...
Working from a combination of satellite records and declassified submarine sonar data, NASA scientists have...
Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent Sept. 19, and then again on Sept. 23, 2018. NASA works with the...
Seven Seas
A Frozen Sea
On March 7, 2017, Arctic sea ice reached its annual wintertime maximum extent, according to scientists at the...
Every year, sea ice fluctuates through the seasons, growing in the winter and shrinking in the summer. This year,...
Antarctica—the continent at the southernmost reach of the planet—is fringed by cold, often frozen waters of the...
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy encountered only small patches of sea ice in the Chukchi Sea during the final days...
The Arctic sea ice pack is nearing its annual minimum extent, which is projected to be one of the lowest since...
(Aral Sea: left 2014 and right 2000, 1960 extent black line) In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water...
Phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea captured August 14, 2011. At times nature exceeds the ability of the artist’s...
Situated between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea, the Sea of Marmara is full of a rich soup of nutrients and life...
ICESat-2 will measure heights or elevations. In order to derive sea ice thickness from those measurements, it will...
Sea of Sand in Juventae Chasma
Sand Sea in False Color
Northern Sand Sea
Tethys: The Sea Goddess
An iceberg is seen out the window of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft as it flies 2,000 feet above the Amundsen Sea in...
Sea level rise is a natural consequence of the warming of our planet. We know this from basic physics. When water...
Arctic sea ice declined this summer to its second smallest extent in the satellite era, suggesting that the record...
Arctic sea ice extent ebbs and flows with the seasons. During the summer months, the ice melts and the edge recedes...