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This image, from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite, shows the western Canadian Arctic on June 10, 2010

The image captures the Arctic in a moment of transformation. Signs of winter are still present, but summer is clearly on the horizon. Sea ice in the Beaufort Sea has started to break up. A swath of open water, black in this image, separates the land from the dense pack of sea ice.

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