• Question: Is there any other ways to find out how much sea ice there is?

    Asked by 966spdm27 to Sammie on 5 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Sammie Buzzard

      Sammie Buzzard answered on 5 Mar 2018:

      You can measure the edge of the ice e.g. from ships or fly planes over it but the amount of sea ice is huge (about 13 million square km) so the only way to see lots of it quickly is from satellites

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