Every line is a real measured flow vector. The interior creeps a few
metres a year; the outlet glaciers run to 5,258 m/yr — fourteen metres a day,
fast enough to watch. All of it ends in the sea.
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particles
2.4 km
grid
1985–2018
observed
1 m/yr3,000+
ITS_LIVE · NASA JPL · feature-tracked from Landsat
EPSG:3031 · Antarctic Polar Stereographic COMNAP · US National Ice Center
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