People and satellites keep an eye on when ice on the world’s deepest lake melts each year.
Published May 10, 2012
Accessed January 24, 2011, this natural-color image shows ice coating Lake Baikal.
Published Jan 24, 2011
The puzzling features are most easily seen from above, but they pose real risks at the surface.
Published Jan 30, 2020
This lake in northwest Russia is small compared to Lake Baikal, yet it still manages to make a stately appearance in satellite imagery.
Published Apr 4, 2020
A blanket of white spread across the Sayan Mountains.
Published Nov 6, 2014
Roughly the same size of Belgium, Canada’s Great Slave Lake runs nearly 2,000 feet deep.
Published May 24, 2019
Nearly 90 percent of the lake was ice-covered on January 9, 2014.
Published Jan 15, 2014
The world’s deepest lake was shedding some of its ice cover when the space station passed over in April 2014.
Published May 12, 2014
A relatively rare blanket of ice rested on the surface of Lake Superior in early March 2009.
Published Mar 13, 2009
A submarine vehicle built by a JPL scientist and Arizona State University students surveys Lake Whillans, which is 800 meters below an ice sheet.
Published Mar 17, 2013
While most scientific and public attention goes to glaciers, lake and river ice have interesting stories to tell as well.
Published Jul 5, 2017
The alpine lakes of the Tibetan Plateau are some of the most remote in the world. This mosaic of astronaut photographs, taken along a single International Space Station orbit track, depicts Lake Puma Yumco during the winter season. The lake is located at an elevation of 5,030 meters above sea level (16,503 feet), and is considered ultraoligotrophic, meaning that nutrient concentrations in both the water column and lake sediments are extremely low. Water in such lakes tends to be blue to blue-green and to have high clarity due to low levels of photosynthesizing organisms such as phytoplankton. Color change in these lakes is usually due to shallowing of the water—blue indicating deeper water. A depth transition is visible along the west-southwest shoreline of Lake Puma Yumco at the lower left of image. The most striking feature of the image mosaic, however, is the intricate ice block pattern on the lake surface.
Published Feb 27, 2006
Lake Erie is usually the first to freeze over because it is shallower than the other Great Lakes.
Published Feb 18, 2018Image of the Day Atmosphere Temperature Extremes Sea and Lake Ice
A cool spring left several lakes in northern Minnesota covered in ice, weeks beyond the norm.
Published May 17, 2013
Summer beachgoers and fishers have been getting a wintery surprise on Lake Superior.
Published Jun 12, 2014
