Ephemeral Arc Spans Greenland Fjord - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

Ephemeral Arc Spans Greenland Fjord - related image preview

1051 x 701
394 KB - JPEG

Ephemeral Arc Spans Greenland Fjord - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

Ephemeral Arc Spans Greenland Fjord - related image preview

6379 x 4253
7 MB - JPEG

Ephemeral Arc Spans Greenland Fjord - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

Ephemeral Arc Spans Greenland Fjord - related image preview

1077 x 718
460 KB - JPEG

Ephemeral Arc Spans Greenland Fjord - related image preview

JPEG

Ephemeral Arc Spans Greenland Fjord

Scientists have some ideas about what might have caused a thin arc that spanned a fjord in Western Greenland.  


NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. NASA photo, a still from this video, was provided by Josh Willis (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published September 26, 2023
Data acquired August 3, 2023

Sources:
Landsat 9 > OLI-2
Photograph