Ice Stars

Canada

Landsat 7

Acquired 2002-08-04

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 3

Like distant galaxies amid clouds of interstellar dust, chunks of sea ice drift through graceful swirls of grease ice in the frigid waters of Foxe Basin near Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Sea ice often begins as grease ice, a soupy slick of tiny ice crystals on the ocean's surface. As the temperature drops, grease ice thickens and coalesces into slabs of more solid ice.

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U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 3. Imagery in the public domain; the edit and sequencing are Orbital Artifacts’.

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Imagery curated from Earth as Art, courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data.

Acquired 2002-08-04Landsat 7

OA-039

Ice Stars

Canada

Landsat 7

Acquired 2002-08-04

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 3

Like distant galaxies amid clouds of interstellar dust, chunks of sea ice drift through graceful swirls of grease ice in the frigid waters of Foxe Basin near Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Sea ice often begins as grease ice, a soupy slick of tiny ice crystals on the ocean's surface. As the temperature drops, grease ice thickens and coalesces into slabs of more solid ice.

Curated from

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 3. Imagery in the public domain; the edit and sequencing are Orbital Artifacts’.

Limited edition

29 of 29 remaining

Available as

Not yet in the shop. Get in touch → for commissions or an early print of this scene.

← Back to archive

← Previous

Australian Iron Ore

OA-038

Next →

Tapestry

OA-040