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A Long View of the Arctic

Colorful lakes and retreating glaciers are among the beautiful scenes waiting to be discovered within an image mosaic of the Arctic.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Special thanks to Theresa Arvidson and Eugene Fosnight (USGS) for scheduling the Arctic solstice data acquisitions. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published February 17, 2015
Data acquired June 21, 2014

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI