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The St. Lawrence Island polynya as seen in composite satellite imagery made by combining Thermal Infrared and Radar using a technique called Hue-Light-Saturation (HLS). The colder, thicker ice is green and the warmer ice with open water is yellow. The grey land in the picture is St. Lawrence Island.

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