Arctic sea ice minimum is the second lowest on record

Today's Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory shows the 2020 Arctic sea ice minimum, which is the second lowest on record.  The minimum sea ice extent, which was reached around September 15, measured 1.44 million square miles. The only other time that Arctic sea ice has fallen below 1.5 million square miles in the time of modern record keeping was in 2012. According to measurements by NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder, the 2020 sea …