December 22, 2007
0300 PM
Antarctica

This is the 'beginning' of the Summer 2007-2008 of Antarctica. This is when heat begins to disaffect the ice. The image below is after an entire summer when the temperatures balance should be the most disaffected before proceeding into Autumn.


March 5, 2007
10:46:29 AM
Antarctica at the end of it's summer of 2006 - 2007. The heat then was absent over the Blue Ice and East Antarctica where frigid air was maintained by a mostly benevolent Earth.