The Greenland Ice Sheet: Now in HD
Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 09:30
in Earth & Climate
The Greenland Ice Sheet is ready for its close-up. The highest-resolution satellite images ever taken of that region are making their debut. And while each individual pixel represents only one moment in time, taken together they show the ice sheet as a kind of living body—flowing, crumbling and melting out to sea.