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English: In recent years, climate change has been transforming the Arctic and opening up maritime routes that used to be closed in the winter. The altered seasonality of the sea ice floe in this fast-changing environment is attracting more shipping traffic than ever before. This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 6 February, shows the Christophe de Margerie, a Russian icebreaking liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, travelling through the Bering Sea back to Sabetta, an LNG plant located in the Russian Arctic Ocean territory. This crossing was the first smooth crossing by a commercial vessel in February. According to Rick Thoman, a climate specialist of the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment, a mere twenty years ago this route would not have been accessible due to the thickness of the ice that was making navigation impossible. Open data supplied by the Copernicus Sentinel satellites are used for maritime surveillance around the world, in particular for developing sea ice charts.
Date Taken on 6 February 2021
Source LNG carrier autonomously sailing across the Bering Strait
Author European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

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