ISS Photograph Shows Ice Floes Along the Kamchatka Coastline
Posted on April 9, 2012
This photograph was taken by an astronaut aboard the the International Space Station (ISS) with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera using a 28 mm lens. The image was cropped, enhanced and lens artifacts were removed. The photograph shows ice floes along the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia. The ice smashes against itself, creating ice floes small enough that they can be moved by wind and currents.
NOAA notes that even though the floes look thin and delicate from the ISS, they are quite large. Even the smaller ice chunks are several meters across. You can find a larger version of the image here.
Kamchatka, Russia is also home to several volcanoes.
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