Young, thin ice off Banks Island

A striking melange of young ice types in and around a pool of what was very recently open water, and is in the process of refreezing.  The darker linear features, primarily in the left of the image, may look like shadows, but they are in fact new leads of open water.

Credits
NASA/John Sonntag
Subject
Other
Mission
OIB

 

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