10-31-2016, 04:43 AM
Not so pretty...
New Studies Get to the Bottom of Antarctic Melting
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Source: NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day, 2016 October 30
New Studies Get to the Bottom of Antarctic Melting
![[Image: smith_sn1_2016017.png]](http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/89000/89016/smith_sn1_2016017.png)
NASA Earth Observatory Wrote:Researchers from NASA and the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have gained an unprecedented view of ice melting on the floating undersides of glaciers. In the process, they detected the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica.
Source: NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day, 2016 October 30