As the northern hemisphere experiences its warmest months of the year, ice is moving and melting in Arctic waters and on the frozen lands that surround it. Such is the case along the edge of the Helheim and Zachariae glaciers on Greenland’s east coast.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired these two images of ice swirling off of Greenland on July 16, 2015. The spirals of ice are shaped by winds and currents that move across the sea.
Along the Greenland coast, cold, fresh melt water from the glaciers flows out to the sea, as do newly calved icebergs. Frigid air from interior Greenland pushes the ice away from the shoreline, and the mixing of cold water and air allows the sea ice to be sustained even at the height of summer.
I'd love to live in that exact part of the world. No neighbours at all. The only visitors would be "Siriuspatruljen".
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