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This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 26 March 2021, shows the town of Longyearbyen, the most populous settlement of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.

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English: This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 26 March 2021, shows the town of Longyearbyen, the most populous settlement of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The sea ice in this area reaches its maximal annual extent every year in March — in 2021, this maximal extent equalled 14.77 million km², and it was reached on 21 March. According to NASA, it is the seventh-lowest maximal extent of Arctic sea ice ever recorded. The Norwegian Ice Service has also reported that the extent of the sea ice in Svalbard on 31 March 2021, only five days after this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image was acquired, amounted to the second-lowest area ever recorded for this day of the year. Timely measurements of the sea ice extent over large areas and at high spatial and temporal resolutions are essential for its monitoring. The Norwegian Ice Service uses data from the Copernicus Sentinel missions for its sea ice monitoring activities in the Arctic Ocean.
Date Taken on 31 March 2021
Source Unusually low sea ice extent at the Svalbard archipelago, Norway
Author European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

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© This image contains data from a satellite in the Copernicus Programme, such as Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 or Sentinel-3. Attribution is required when using this image.
Attribution: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2021

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