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Sea Ice Flows, Sea of Okhotsk, CIS
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STS039-84-29AL (28 April-6 May 1991) --- This nearly vertical photograph of the North Atlantic, taken outside of the sunglint pattern, illustrates the extreme contrast between highly reflective ice, having a large percentage of between-crystal air space, and the low-reflectance water, which absorbs most of the light that propagates into it from the air. The ice drifts along with the surface currents and wind and may therefore be used as a natural Langranian* tracer.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSea Ice Flows, Sea of Okhotsk, CIS. NASA/JSC, 1991-05-06. Public domain. ID: s39-84-29al.
