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Overview – changing ice
 
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Arctic ice cover for winter maximum and summer minimum for 1980 and 2007. While there is clear difference between the sea-ice extent at the end of the winter between 1980 and 2007, the summer minima show startling differences. In September 2007 the area covered by perennial sea ice shrunk to the smallest recorded since satellite measurements began 30 years ago.

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ESA's ice mission
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ESA’s Earth Explorer CryoSat mission is dedicated to precise monitoring of changes in the thickness of marine ice floating in the polar oceans and variations in the thickness of the vast ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica.

Credits: ESA/AOES Medialab
 
  Last update: 22 January 2010 
 
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