BOSTON – Why is sea ice continuing to melt in the Arctic? NASA researchers are aiming to find out as they just wrapped up a never-before-done experiment. The research, called Arctic Radiation ...
The 2024 minimum is ranked seventh lowest in the 46-year satellite record. The last 18 years are the lowest 18 Arctic sea ice extents in the satellite record. This NASA Blue Marble image shows Arctic ...
The 2024 maximum is the second lowest in the 46-year satellite record. The record low maximum occurred in 2023. This NASA Blue Marble image shows Antarctic sea ice on September 19, 2024, when sea ice ...
Arctic sea ice retreated to near-historic lows in the Northern Hemisphere this summer, likely melting to its minimum extent for the year on Sept.11, 2024, according to researchers at NASA and the ...
there was "very little ice left" in Foxe Basin, NASA representatives wrote. The 2012 record still stands to this day. However, recent years have also seen very low minimum sea ice extent thanks to ...
NASA, preparing to establish a permanent presence on the moon, has detected deposits of water ice on the moon "more extensive than previously thought." An instrument on the space agency's Lunar ...