{"id":277729,"date":"2025-09-04T01:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=23dcfb25c9145361a9d5a57872c4bbcd"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:17:20","slug":"thinning-arctic-sea-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=277729","title":{"rendered":"Thinning Arctic Sea Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nasa-september-2025-hd-1920x1080-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nasa-september-2025-hd-1920x1080-1.jpg?w=1920\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Aerial view of fractured sea ice floating in the Arctic Ocean. Large white ice sheets are broken into irregular shapes, with deep blue melt ponds and dark open water channels visible between them.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nasa-september-2025-hd-1920x1080-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nasa-september-2025-hd-1920x1080-1.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nasa-september-2025-hd-1920x1080-1.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nasa-september-2025-hd-1920x1080-1.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nasa-september-2025-hd-1920x1080-1.jpg?resize=1536,864 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nasa-september-2025-hd-1920x1080-1.jpg?resize=400,225 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nasa-september-2025-hd-1920x1080-1.jpg?resize=600,338 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nasa-september-2025-hd-1920x1080-1.jpg?resize=900,506 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nasa-september-2025-hd-1920x1080-1.jpg?resize=1200,675 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Rachel Tilling<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sea ice is&nbsp;frozen seawater that floats in the ocean. This photo, taken from NASA\u2019s Gulfstream V Research Aircraft on July 21, 2022, shows Arctic sea ice in the Lincoln Sea north of Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>This image is the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/september-2025\/\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA Science Image of the Month for September 2025<\/a>. Each month, NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate chooses an image to feature, offering desktop wallpaper downloads, as well as links to related topics, activities, and games.<\/p>\n<p><em>Text and image credit: NASA\/Rachel Tilling<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea ice is\u00a0frozen seawater that floats in the ocean. This photo, taken from NASA\u2019s Gulfstream V Research Aircraft on July 21, 2022, shows Arctic sea ice in the Lincoln Sea north of Greenland. This image is the\u00a0NASA Science Image of the Month for September 2025. Each month, NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate chooses an image to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15644,17377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth","category-ice-glaciers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278202,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277729\/revisions\/278202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}