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+  "date": "2024-06-13T17:41:23.000Z",
+  "title": "Sea Ice Swirls",
+  "canonicalUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/sea-ice-swirls/",
+  "imageUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/greenlandiceswirls-tmo-20240604-lrg.jpg",
+  "imageAlt": "A satellite view of sea ice. The ice is white and solid at top left, while the edges swirl and swoop through the dark blue water.",
+  "author": "Monika Luabeya"
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+NASA’s [Terra](https://terra.nasa.gov/) satellite captured floating fragments of sea ice as ocean currents carried them south along Greenland’s east coast on June 4, 2024.
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+This ice traveled from the [Fram Strait](https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/86322/sea-ice-near-greenland), a 450-kilometer (280-mile)-wide passage between Greenland and Svalbard, to the Arctic Ocean. Along the journey, it breaks into smaller pieces and starts to melt in warmer ocean waters, creating the wispy patterns seen here.
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+[Learn more about Arctic sea ice.](https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152917/sea-ice-takes-a-spin-down-the-coast)
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+_Image Credit: NASA/Wanmei Liang, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS [LANCE](https://earthdata.nasa.gov/lance) and [GIBS/Worldview](https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/)_