Polar sunrise

A lovely polar sunrise - our reward as we turned back toward the south, at the northern tip of our science line.  The stratus clouds far below us show several gaps, through which our instruments could measure the sea ice surface.

Credits
NASA/John Sonntag
Subject
Mission

 

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