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Acquired March 27, 2010, this natural-color image shows part of the southeastern coast of Greenland, fringed by multiple forms of sea ice: fast ice, multiyear ice fragments, and small pieces of ice shaped into swirls by currents.
Published Apr 2, 2010
Summer is a dynamic time for ice in Arctic waters—melting, drifting, and even forming occasionally.
Published Aug 2, 2015
Summer brought melting swirls of sea ice to the southeastern coast of Greenland.
Published Jul 17, 2015
Ice that originated in the Arctic Ocean drifts hundreds of miles south, pulled along and shaped by the East Greenland Current.
Published Jul 21, 2020
Acquired March 11, 2010, this true-color image shows Iceberg B-09B and an iceberg recently broken off the Mertz Glacier, as well as newly forming sea ice. Open ocean predominates on the leeward side of icebergs.
Published Mar 11, 2010
Swirls of ice drift in the Southern Ocean off East Antarctica’s Princess Astrid Coast.
Published Apr 6, 2015
Carried by winds and currents, sea ice can reach the coast of Hokkaido, Japan.
Published Mar 19, 2020
Satellites and scientists capture the Mackenzie River in the act of warming the ocean and breaking up ice in the Beaufort Sea.
Published Mar 6, 2014
The Sea of Okhotsk is the lowest latitude area where sea ice forms each winter.
Published Jan 11, 2015
Filaments of sea ice stretch across the waters off southern Greenland, an area that is typically ice-free.
Published May 18, 2019
Icebergs and sea ice floated along Antarctica’s Mawson Coast in March 2013.
Published Mar 24, 2013
In some places where ice should cover the sea, open water appears instead.
Published Nov 22, 2011
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
The Yellow Sea has some of the most turbid and dynamic waters in the world.
Published Mar 24, 2015
Sea ice formed delicate swirls of blue and white in the Sea of Okhotsk in February 2009.
Published Feb 27, 2009
A patch of open water made a rare appearance amid winter sea ice in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica.
Published Sep 1, 2016
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
Off the coast of northern Japan and eastern Russia, a swirl of currents push ice around in a clash of winter and summer currents.
Published Apr 28, 2014
While pack ice gets jostled by winds and currents in the open ocean, fast ice usually clings to land masses in shallow areas.
Published May 21, 2013
Nature can generate some perplexing patterns, such as this isolated, snake-like patch of sea ice.
Published Apr 15, 2018
Cold winter winds helped paint a lovely scene off the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland.
Published Feb 26, 2018
Acquired March 29, 2011, this photograph shows canyons along the coast of northwestern Greenland.
Published May 1, 2011
