Melt Ponds, Petermann Ice Island

Petermann Ice Island A still behaves like the massive ice sheet it left 14 months ago.

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Astronaut photograph ISS028-E-34749 was acquired on August 29, 2011, with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera using a 400 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 28 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. Lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published September 17, 2011
Data acquired August 29, 2011

Source:

ISS > Digital Camera

Collection:

Astronaut Photography