Greenland’s Summer Melt Underway

Melt ponds on the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet are an important indicator of the strength of the 2013 melt season.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Greenland’s Summer Melt Underway.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat 8 data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published July 9, 2013
Data acquired June 21, 2013