Turquoise Tides: Summer Eddies Roar in Canada's Arctic Fjord
TL;DR
NASA’s Image of the Day highlights the 2022 Arctic summer melt in Cañon Fiord, where sediment plumes and fractured sea ice trace swirling eddies in a branch of the Nansen Sound fjord system; turquoise waters reveal glacial flour carried by meltwater, and satellite data show Arctic glaciers in the Canadian Archipelago have been shrinking since the mid-2000s.
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