This late summertime shot captures sea ice and land ice in Russia’s northernmost territory.
Published Jan 7, 2012
These true-color images show wide-area and close-up views of glaciers flowing into a largely dry, linear valley in western Greenland on August 29, 2009.
Published Sep 13, 2009
Starting out as land ice, these icebergs are now trapped in sea ice off the east coast of Greenland.
Published May 13, 2018
Silty glacial meltwater flows northward up the side of Spitsbergen’s Woodfjorden, pushed to the fjord’s eastern margin by the spin of the Earth.
Published Aug 14, 2005
Acquired August 17, 2011, this natural-color image shows Franz Josef Land, a 191-island archipelago in the northeastern Barents Sea.
Published Aug 28, 2011
Though the mountains are located just south of the equator, their elevation is high enough and the air temperatures are cold enough to still support a few small areas of ice.
Published Feb 14, 2018
An outlet glacier in the Russian High Arctic has scientists rethinking how rapidly glaciers in cold, dry areas can move.
Published Apr 8, 2019
This summertime, natural-color image shows the Åland Islands between Sweden and Finland.
Published Sep 20, 2011
A guano stain betrays the location of an emperor penguin colony on Antarctic ice in this Landsat image from December 4, 2002.
Published Jun 5, 2009
Located in East Antarctica, Astrolabe Glacier streams out from the interior of Antarctica to dump ice into the sea.
Published Mar 26, 2011
For one NASA scientist, studying one of Everest’s glaciers with satellites meant going there in person.
Published Aug 10, 2013
