Ice Eddies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Winds and currents stirred up the thin sea ice, forming delicate patterns around Anticosti Island in Quebec, Canada.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Ice Eddies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using GOES-16 data from the NOAA-NASA GOES-R Mission, and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Text by Kathryn Hansen.

Published March 13, 2020
Data acquired March 9, 2020