Enough ice lines the coasts of Sweden and Finland in this natural-color image from March 5, 2010, that it is difficult to tell where the coast ends and the sea begins.
Published Mar 5, 2010
A mixture of ice types exists where frozen water meets open water.
Published Mar 11, 2015
Winds and currents stirred up the thin sea ice, forming delicate patterns around Anticosti Island in Quebec, Canada.
Published Mar 13, 2020Image of the Day Water Unique Imagery Snow and Ice Remote Sensing
Today, Finland’s coastal city of Oulu is subarctic. A little over 11,000 years ago, it was buried by ice.
Published Nov 27, 2011
When the ice melts or starts congealing, it masses into chunks like crushed ice in a cocktail. Then, ocean currents stir those chunks into a cyclone-like vortex.
Published Jul 21, 2016
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured the movement in this pair of photo-like images of sea ice in the Ross Sea, taken on December 12 and December 13, 2007, within the span of nine hours. The ice was shifting, bunching and drifting northward so quickly that even in the short space of time that elapsed between the two images, noticeable differences developed.
Published Dec 15, 2007
A diamond-shaped piece of ice is a stranger amid thin ice.
Published Mar 1, 2017
New elevation measurements will give researchers an unprecedented understanding of the thickness of sea ice, which will be used to help improve climate modeling and forecasts.
Published Dec 18, 2018
Acquired October 7, 2011, this natural-color image shows an ice menagerie off the coast of East Antarctica.
Published Oct 23, 2011
As Arctic sea ice grew toward its maximum extent, it began to fill the Gulf of St. Lawrence in February 2013.
Published Feb 20, 2013
An area of sea ice larger than the state of Rhode Island can be seen breaking from the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf in this series of photo-like images.
Published Jan 15, 2010
Thick ice that used to last through multiple summers has been in steep decline for three decades.
Published Mar 1, 2012
Thin sea ice swirled along the east coast of Greenland in October 2012, against a backdrop of overall thinning sea ice.
Published Oct 27, 2012
Sea ice formed delicate swirls along the coast of Baffin Island in this true-color image acquired July 11, 2009.
Published Jul 24, 2009
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