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Melt Ponds on Greenland’s Ice Cap

Thinner than the 2.3-kilometer-thick center, the outer edges of the Greenland ice sheet develop melt zones like the one shown here during the warm summer months.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Melt Ponds on Greenland’s Ice Cap.

NASA Image by Robert Simmon, based on Landsat data from the UMD Global Land Cover Facility

Published April 7, 2007
Data acquired August 6, 2000

Source:: Landsat 7 > ETM+

Topic:: Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Ice Growth/Melt