Queen Elizabeth Islands and Baffin Bay, Northern Canada

  • Credit

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

MODIS acquired this true-color image of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in northern Canada (image left) and northwestern Greenland as the ice in Baffin Bay (lower right) and the Nares Strait, which separates Greenland from the Islands, was continuing to thaw.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2001-05-26