This, and a host of similar cool animations have been produced by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio and are available in much higher resolution from their website at:
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ A search for "arctic sea ice" on the main page will give you 27 matches, including the series used by the Washington Post article. There are, in fact, two versions of the "2007 Arctic Sea Ice from AMSR-E..." sequences showing the polar region from different perspectives, with Alaska or Greenland in the foreground. Madhu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Madhusudan Katti Assistant Professor Department of Biology, M/S SB73 California State University, Fresno 2555 E. San Ramon Ave. Fresno, CA 93740-8034 559.278.2460 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Oct 22, 2007, at 1:14 PM, joseph gathman wrote: > There's a pretty impressive time-series animation of > arctic ice shrinking at this page: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/ > 2007/10/21/AR2007102100761.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST20071021007 > > I showed it today at the beginning of class. It takes > no time and makes quite an impact. > > Joe > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com
