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Mission 1

NE Antarctic Peninsula

No imagery built yet. The time machine opens for this mission once its Landsat backfill runs.

Southern hemisphere — year labels mean something different here

Year Y is the austral summer that ends in Y, not a calendar year. This site is imaged around 20 January, at the end of the southern melt season — not in July with the northern sites. Comparing this site's 2026 with a northern site's 2026 compares two different moments.

Type
Ice sheet
Headline metric
Bare-ice extent
Baseline year
1986
Anchor date
20 January ± 45 d · end of the austral summer
Projection
+proj=laea +lat_0=-64.6000 +lon_0=-58.8000 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs
Expedition
Not yet crossed

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