Svalbard and Franz Josef Land, Arctic Ocean

  • Credit

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

This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from April 23, 2002, shows Svalbard, Norway (left), and Franz Josef Land, Russia (center and right). Much of these islands will remain snow and ice covered year round. In this image, cloud streets are forming over the open waters of the Arctic Ocean (left and top) and the Barents Sea (bottom).

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-04-30