Ice Covers the Great Lakes

MODIS imagery from early March shows unusually widespread seasonal ice across the North American Great Lakes.

This past winter?s unusually thick and widespread ice in Lake Superior has retreated with the arrival of spring. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Aqua satellite on April 8, 2003, shows ice relegated to inlets and a few places along the shores of Lakes Superior (center), Michigan (south) and Huron (southeast).

The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS? maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Start Date

    2003-04-08

  • Event Start Date

    2003-03-09

  • NH Image ID

    10144

  • NH Event ID

    5624

  • NH Posting Date

    2003-04-09