• MODIS Pic of the Day 06 June 2022

    From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to All on Monday, June 06, 2022 12:00:24
    June 6, 2022 - Springtime Thaw in Ungava Bay

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    Sitting along the northern coastline of Quebec, Canada, Ungava Bay is a
    funnel-shaped, shallow body of water that lies south of the Hudson
    Strait, east of the Ungava Peninsula, and west of the Torngat
    Mountains. Thanks to its northern location, ice begins to form on
    Ungava Bay in November and typically stays through June. Because the
    chilly waters remain ice-free in the summer and early fall, the copious
    ice that covers the Bay in winter is first-year ice and, thanks to the
    extremely high tides and strong currents, the ice tends to be “rubble”
    ice— a type of ice made up of a jumble of ice fragments that cover the
    water without any particular order.

    On June 2, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
    (MODIS) on board NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of
    ice on Ungava Bay. In the image, a thin layer of winter’s snow and ice
    still covers the mainland of Quebec (south) while, to the north, Baffin
    Island wears a mantle of winter white. Some fast ice (ice connected to
    the shoreline) remains and copious rubble ice floats on the waters of
    the Bay, but large areas of open water are visible off most of the
    coastal areas and around Akpatok Island, in the center of the image.

    Accessible only by air, Akpatok Island rises out of the water as sheer
    cliffs that soar 500 to 800 feet (150 to 243 meters) above the sea
    surface. The island is an important sanctuary for cliff-nesting
    seabirds. In the winter, numerous ice floes around the island attract
    walruses and whales, making Akpatok a traditional hunting ground for
    native Inuit people.

    Image Facts
    Satellite: Terra
    Date Acquired: 6/2/2022
    Resolutions: 1km (369 KB), 500m (1021.7 KB), 250m (837.6
    KB)
    Bands Used: 1,4,3
    Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



    https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-06-06

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