Image of the week: Sea ice off Greenland

Watching our Earth from space

This week’s image focuses on swirls of sea ice off the coast of Greenland, in the Denmark Strait. The image was captured by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 11 May 2025.

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15 May 2025

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15 May 2025

According to the latest European State of the Climate report, 2024 was the third warmest year on record for the Arctic as a whole and the fourth warmest for Arctic land. The Arctic has been warming at a rate far exceeding the global average since the 1990s, causing reductions in snow and ice coverage.

EUMETSAT’s Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF) monitors Arctic sea ice and provides daily sea ice products and a sea ice index, which covers both the sea ice extent and area over the last 40 years and is continuously updated.

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This image was captured by the OLCI instrument on one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 11 May 2025.

EUMETSAT operates the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, in cooperation with ESA, and delivers the marine data on behalf of the European Union.

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