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Blue marble globe with Northern Hemisphere ice sheet at peak of last ice age

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Roughly 20,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum of the Pleistocene Ice Age, ice spread over much of North America and Eurasia. (High-resolution without annotations available.) Image by Climate.gov, based on data from the University of Zurich Applied Sciences, provided by Science on a Sphere.