Ice & Glaciers

Earth Observatory
Ice & Glaciers
Landsat 8 / LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission)
Ocean Circulation
Sea Ice
During the 2022 summer melt season, sediment plumes and fractured sea ice traced swirling eddies in a branch of the Nansen Sound fjord system in the Canadian Arctic.
Posted March 16, 2026
Astrobiology
Earth Observatory
Ice & Glaciers
Landsat 9
Planetary Analogs
Surface Water
Water on Earth
Lake Unter-See in Antarctica, sealed beneath thick ice, contains unusually high levels of dissolved oxygen and cone-shaped microbial reefs resembling some of Earth’s oldest fossils.
Posted March 11, 2026
Carbon Cycle
Earth Observatory
Ice & Glaciers
Oceans
Water Blooms
As Iceberg A-23A disintegrated, it shed meltwater that helped fuel an extensive phytoplankton bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Posted March 6, 2026
Earth Observatory
Earthquakes
Ice & Glaciers
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Landslides
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice spilling across the frozen landscapes of the St. Elias Mountains.
Posted February 25, 2026
Cryosphere
Earth Observatory
Earth Visualization & Mapping
Ice & Glaciers
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The glacier in southeastern Svalbard pulses with the changing seasons, speeding up and slowing its flow toward the sea.
Posted February 13, 2026
Earth
Ice & Glaciers
Landsat
NASA Scientist Alex Gardner highlights how Landsat made his research into the dynamics of glacial flow possible.
Posted February 4, 2026
Carbon Cycle
Cryosphere
Earth Observatory
Ice & Glaciers
Land Cover
Wildfires
An increasingly flammable landscape combined with more lightning strikes is leading to larger, more frequent, and more intense fires than the landscape is adapted for.
Posted January 14, 2026
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
Ice & Glaciers
ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2)
With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The total sea ice coverage was tied with 2008 for the 10th-lowest on record at 1.78 million square […]
Posted September 17, 2025
Citizen Science
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Ice & Glaciers
Citizen science projects result in an overwhelmingly positive impact on the polar tourism experience.
Posted July 9, 2025
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Climate Change
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Ice & Glaciers
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Seasat
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
SIR-C/X-SAR (Shuttle Imaging Radar-C / X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar)
A Q&A with the lead U.S. scientist of the mission, which will track changes in everything from wetlands to ice sheets to infrastructure damaged by natural disasters. The upcoming U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission will observe Earth like no mission before, offering insights about our planet’s ever-changing surface.
Posted January 6, 2025
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