This stunning satellite image shows a trio of barren islands in the Russian Arctic, offering a rare glimpse at the colorful, concentric rings of the region's ever-present ice caps.
The Severnaya Zemlya archipelago is a collection of Russian-owned islands in the Arctic Ocean that cover around 14,300 square miles (37,000 square kilometers) — around the same size as Maryland — beyond Siberia's northernmost coastline. The archipelago sits along the boundary between the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea and has four main landmasses: Komsomolets Island, Pioneer Island, October Revolution Island and Bolshevik Island.
