Icebergs off Greenland

Greenland's been in the news lately, what with cracking off an iceberg as big as Manhattan, and having a huge burst of melting due to unusual warm air ridges squatting over it. The Greenland ice sheet is huge: 1.7 million square kilometers (650,000 square miles), and commonly creates a lot of icebergs in the summer. This season is no exception, and in mid-July, during the biggest melt ever seen, In 2005, NASA's Terra Earth-observing satellite took this quite beautiful shot of icebergs floating off Greenland in Baffin Bay: