Queen Elizabeth Islands (Northern Canada), Northern coast of Greenland, and Baffin Bay

MODIS acquired this true-color image of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in northern Canada (image left) and northwestern Greenland (image right) as the ice in the Nares Strait, which separates the two, was beginning to break up.

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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published May 25, 2001
Data acquired May 25, 2001

Source:

Terra > MODIS

Topics:

Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Ice Growth/Melt

Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Icebergs

Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Pack Ice