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Harry Baker

Ethereal ice swirls dance around Arctic peninsula in stunning new satellite image

A satellite image of ice swirls in the Sea of Okhotsk captured by NASA's Aqua satellite on May 28. The snow-covered land mass is Russia's P'yagina Peninsula. (Image credit: Wanmei Liang/MODIS/NASA Earth Observatory)

A stunning new satellite image shows an enormous mass of melting sea ice elegantly swirling around a Russian peninsula in the Arctic. Although beautiful, the scene is a sombre reminder of the ever-increasing effects of climate change.

NASA's Aqua satellite snapped the dazzling ice display on May 28 twirling around the Sea of Okhotsk for hundreds of miles, just off the coast of Russia's snow-covered P'yagina Peninsula. The image was released on June 12 by NASA's Earth Observatory.

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