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Turquoise Tides: Summer Eddies Roar in Canada's Arctic Fjord
earth-science25 days ago

Turquoise Tides: Summer Eddies Roar in Canada's Arctic Fjord

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.