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Figure 5. Same-day sea-ice images from microwave and visible/infrared sensors. Left: The Arctic region on 12 March 2003, as imaged from the 89-GHz vertically polarized channel of the Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E), at a pixel resolution of 5 km. Right: Ice-surface temperature in the Fram Strait on 12 March 2003, as determined from data from the EOS Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). (Images from Hall and others, 2004.)