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Description	English: From source: "Ice mass measurement by NASA's GRACE satellites. Gap represents time between missions. Credit: NASA" (includes data from GRACE AND GRACE follow-on) Source for Version 12+: Ice Sheets - Earth Indicator. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (2026). Archived from the original on 3 January 2026. Retrieved on 7 January 2026., click on "Get data HTTP" (free registration required to download) Archive of January 2025: https://web.archive.org/web/20250123233821/https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ice-sheets/?intent=121 Data listing for Versions 9+: https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/tellus/L4/ice_mass/RL06.1/v03/mascon_CRI/antarctica_mass_200204_202211.txt (free registration required to read page) Data for Versions 4 and 9+: Data downloaded from "Get Data HTTP" button at https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ice-sheets/ (free registration required to download) Most of the code for Version 4 (2022-01-22) was made with the "Line charts" spreadsheet documented at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG, with subsequent manual edits in text editor to further optimize code. Version 1 was made with Inkscape.
Date	10 December 2020
Source	Is an SVG equivalent of NASA chart at https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ice-sheets/
Author	Employee(s) of NASA, U.S. government, in the ordinary course of their employment duties.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	20:33, 30 April 2025	1,000 × 750 (5 KB)	RCraig09	Version 13: updated to include data through January 2025, move blue shading above data trace
	22:08, 28 January 2025	1,000 × 750 (5 KB)	RCraig09	Version 12: update to include data through August 2024
	22:24, 29 March 2024	1,000 × 750 (5 KB)	RCraig09	Version 11: Updated with data through November 2023
	04:13, 15 October 2023	1,000 × 750 (5 KB)	RCraig09	Version 10: update through June 2023 data . . . . add light blue area beneath trace
	00:07, 2 February 2023	1,000 × 750 (5 KB)	RCraig09	Version 9: update to include data through late 2022
	18:32, 11 February 2022	1,000 × 750 (5 KB)	RCraig09	Version 8: changed gridlines per Talk Page . . . Colored title
	15:40, 9 February 2022	1,000 × 750 (49 KB)	Amitchell125	thicker lines, text to path
	06:16, 24 January 2022	1,000 × 750 (4 KB)	RCraig09	Version 6: implement suggestions from Talk Page, but keeping file size small and svg code simple
	11:36, 22 January 2022	958 × 685 (20 KB)	Femke	Hyphen -> minus signs. Remove various superfluous parts of graph, focussing on data
	05:41, 22 January 2022	1,000 × 750 (5 KB)	RCraig09	Version 4: update to include data for 2021 . . . . use spreadsheet (not Inkscape) to generate SVG code that's more optimized for smaller file size . . . enlarge plot area to future-proof through 2024