Continuing the "thanks be to Espen" theme...
I've been stuffing these numbers into a spreadsheet for some time. Should I happen to be away for a few days, I find it much easier to flick through Espen's daily IJIS/JAXA/ADS images than it is to fart about with the .csv
Some psychologically interesting milestones using the IJIS/JAXA/ADS numbers will soon be upon us. Within the next week, the rolling 2-year average will go below 9.9 million sq kms. The lowest 2-year figure before now was 10.001 - this was basically 2011/2012. Prior to 2016/2017, the previous 1-year record was 9.915 million sq kms, which was clocked up in May 2013
In perhaps 10 days time, the rolling 5-year average will slide beneath 10.1 million sq kms. By comparison, prior to 2012, the record for a single 12-month period was 2011, which came in at 10.185 million sq kms.