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Data acquired October 5, 1997 - October 4, 2015 720 x 410 JPEG
Data acquired 1950 - 2015 720 x 215 PNG
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With each passing month, 2015 looks more and more like 1997.
NASA Earth Observatory map by Jesse Allen, using Jason-2 and TOPEX/Posideon data provided by Akiko Kayashi and Bill Patzert, NASA/JPL Ocean Surface Topography Team. NASA Earth Observatory chart by Joshua Stevens, using data from NOAA. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.
Published October 13, 2015 Data acquired October 1997 - October 2015