The melt lakes all along the western edge of the Greenland ice sheet drained out over the last 3 weeks or so. This image is of the section where the Jakobshavn glacier calves. The floating tongue has split off.
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The image in full can be seen at this link:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/single.php?2009251/crefl1_143.A2009251151000-2009251151500.250m.jpg
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