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Earth from Space: Melt ponds in West Greenland
Written by Copernical Team Friday, 30 September 2022 07:00-
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During spring and summer, as the air warms up and the sun beats down on the Greenland Ice Sheet, melt ponds pop up. Melt ponds are vast pools of open water that form on both sea ice and ice sheets and are visible as turquoise-blue pools of water in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image.