Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured images of sea ice in the waters around Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Sea ice is visible as a dark white mass in the upper left, thinning where it meets the warm, ice-free waters of the Atlantic Ocean. A serrated boundary between sea ice and open ocean extends to the right of the image. This ice occurs 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) north, near the Arctic Circle between Greenland and Baffin Island.it is carried south Labrador Current.
The narrow channel of Belle Isle Channel, named after the small island in the center of the image, channels some of the sea ice into the Gulf of St. Lawrence (lower left). Along the way, you’ll pass Newfoundland, Labrador, and Bell Island, all covered in snow in this image. Bell Island is 18 kilometers (11 miles) long. This sea ice melts when it encounters warmer water in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which receives runoff from the Great Lakes.more detailed astronaut images The January 2006 diagram shows water circulation patterns around Bell Island.
astronaut photo ISS068-E-47135 was acquired on February 7, 2023 with a Nikon D5 digital camera using a focal length of 50 mm. This is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observation Facility and the Johnson Space Center’s Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit.The image was taken by a member Crew of the 68th Expedition. Images have been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast and lens artifacts have been removed.of international space station program is conducting this research as part of the ISS National Laboratory to help astronauts take the most valuable photos of Earth to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. We support the place. Additional images taken by astronauts and astronauts can be viewed at NASA/JSC. Astronaut’s gateway to earth photography. Caption by Justin Wilkinson of his JETS contract at Texas State University, NASA-JSC.
