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Arctic sea ice generally reaches its annual minimum extent in mid-September. This August, ice extent was the second lowest in the satellite record, after 2007.
The NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) re-entered the Earth's atmosphere at approximately 5 a.m. EDT on August 30 over the Barents Sea.