As autumn brings falling temperatures to the Greenland Sea, ice begins to form on the frigid waters, forming delightfully delicate swirls when seen from space.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of sea ice off eastern Greenland on October 16, 2012.

Although most of the sea ice is swirling in the waters of the Greenland Sea, off the central coast of eastern Greenland, a raft of ice has also formed in Scoresby Sound, an inlet made up of a series of fjords, which cover about 38,000 square kilometers (14,700 square miles). It is the world’s largest and longest system of fjords.

Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC Click to enlarge.



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