Sea Ice

Earth
Sea Ice
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Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent on Sept. 12, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder. The ice covered an estimated 1.78 million square miles (4.6 million square kilometers), tying 2008, 2010, and 2025 for the 10th-lowest minimum in the satellite record. […]
Posted September 23, 2026
Earth Observatory
Ice & Glaciers
Sea Ice
While the sea ice melt season has lengthened dramatically in most of the satellite era, the trend unexpectedly stabilized around 2010.
Posted September 21, 2026
Earth Observatory
Landsat 4
Landsat 8 / LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission)
Landsat 9
Sea Ice
Wildlife
Experts are analyzing decades of images from Landsat satellites for clues about how the iconic birds have responded to sea ice disruptions in the past.
Posted August 26, 2026
Earth Observatory
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
Sea Ice
Snow
Surface Water
Drifting sea ice fragments near Alaska’s Saint Lawrence and Nunivak islands and colorful water around the Yukon Delta heralded the approach of the summer solstice.
Posted June 22, 2026
Earth Observatory
Goddard Space Flight Center
Sea Ice
Terra
Patches of open water in the region contributed to low sea ice extent across the Arctic in March 2026, which tied with the lowest maximum observed in the satellite record.
Posted April 3, 2026
Earth Observatory
Ice & Glaciers
Landsat 8 / LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission)
Ocean Circulation
Sea Ice
During the 2022 summer melt season, sediment plumes and fractured sea ice traced swirling eddies in a branch of the Nansen Sound fjord system in the Canadian Arctic.
Posted March 16, 2026
Earth Observatory
Extreme Weather Events
Landsat 1
Sea Ice
Nearly 50 years ago, the first Landsat satellite captured the rare sight of Mid-Atlantic waterways frozen over.
Posted February 27, 2026
Earth Observatory
Landsat 8 / LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission)
Landsat 9
Sea Ice
Icebreakers play a critical role in delivering supplies to America’s largest research base in Antarctica.
Posted February 3, 2026
Earth
Airborne Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Ice & Glaciers
Langley Research Center
Sea Ice
Wallops Flight Facility
What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic, and a new NASA mission is helping improve data modeling and increasing our understanding of Earth’s rapidly changing climate. Changing ice, ocean, and atmospheric conditions in the northernmost part of Earth have a large impact on the entire planet. That’s because the Arctic region acts […]
Posted July 26, 2024
Earth
Airborne Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Ice & Glaciers
Langley Research Center
Sea Ice
Wallops Flight Facility
It’s not just rising air and water temperatures influencing the decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice. Clouds, aerosols, even the bumps and dips on the ice itself can play a role. To explore how these factors interact and impact sea ice melting, NASA is flying two aircraft equipped with scientific instruments over the Arctic Ocean […]
Posted May 31, 2024
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