Earth  ID: 2740

Ice Covers the Great Lakes

Visualizations by Joycelyn Thomson Released on May 22, 2003
On March 9, 2003, four of the five Great Lakes were completely covered in ice. It is very rare for Lake Superior to be completely iced over.
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A view of the Great Lakes on September 16, 2002.
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A view of the Great Lakes on December 3, 2002.
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A view of the Great Lakes on December 10, 2002.
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A view of Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario on January 27, 2003.
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A view of the Great Lakes on March 9, 2003. Note how Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario are completely frozen over.

Visualization Credits

Joycelyn Thomson (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Jacques Descloitres (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio,MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov)

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Mission:
Terra

Data Used:
Aqua/MODIS
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Dates of Data Used:
09/16/2002, 12/03/2002, 12/10/2002, 01/27/2003, 03/09/2003

Keywords:
DLESE >> Cryology
SVS >> Ice
GCMD >> Location >> Great Lakes
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0