Northeast coast of Greenland

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Greenland
Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team

Ice still chokes the northeast coast of Greenland, as shown in this true-color MODIS image.

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Maps of Greenland

Greenland East Coast

Greenland’s eastern coast is featured in this true-color Terra MODIS image from August 21, 2003. In...

Smoke from Alaskan fires off Greenland

Smoke from wildfires burning in Alaska had stretched all the way across North American to Greenland’s...

Greenland East Coast

Though still locked in ice and snow, the east coast of Greenland will experience a brief...

Southern tip of Greenland

Between the Arctic Ocean to the North and the Atlantic to the South, the island of...

Northern coast of Greenland

Lower latitudes may be approaching summer, but this MODIS true-color image shows the northern coast of Greenland still deep in winter.

Southwest coast of Greenland and Davis Strait

This true-color image was taken by MODIS as it passed over the southwest coast of Greenland...

Eastern coast of Greenland and Greenland Sea

On May 15, 2001, a veil of clouds hung over the ice-filled Greenland Sea (right). This...

Northern coast of Greenland

This true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from May 20, 2001, shows Peary Land in...

Peary Land, Northernmost Greenland

This MODIS true-color image, acquired April 6, 2002, shows Peary Land in Northernmost Greenland. Well inside...

Northeast Greenland

NASA—s Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured this series of true-color images of eastern and northeastern...

Northeast Greenland

NASA—s Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured this series of true-color images of eastern and northeastern...

Southwest Greenland

On June 12, 2002, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this...

Northeast coast of Greenland