Pictures Of Antarctica From Space

100 year old photos reveal antarctica like you ve never seen it.

Pictures of antarctica from space. This color picture of antarctica is one part of a mosaic of pictures covering the entire antarctic continent taken during the hours following galileo s historic first encounter with its home planet. But now the modis rapid response system at nasa s goddard space flight center is producing daily photo like images of antarctica. Here s a picture of the entire continent of antarctica seen from space. Schools educational and encyclopedia publishers and similar institutions may use the photos freely to further educational awareness of antarctica.

Here are some amazing antarctica pictures from space. You make it to land and watch as hundreds of penguins waddle by. A myth until the early 1800s the ice covered southern continent is difficult to get to and hostile to most life. Seals grunt and whales do acrobatics.

An occasional mountain can be seen poking through the ice. Relatively few people have seen antarctica. Pictures captured by photographer herbert ponting in the early 20th century show the coldest continent before climate change took hold. No one may reproduce the photos for personal or commercial profit use the photos on products for sale e g t shirts coffee mugs or use the photos for advertisement without express permission.

The pictures from space show the continent on february 6 when temperatures at the tip of the antarctic peninsula reached 18 3. It was captured piece by piece by several spacecraft and then stitched. The trove includes the first publicly available satellite photos of europe the earliest aerial views of antarctica s ice and a record of central asia s aral sea before it dried up. Nasa images have shown antarctica melting on its hottest ever day.

Antarctica traced from space 07 22 10 the newly mapped grounding line blue where ice separates from land is more accurate than a previously mapped line green thanks to high resolution satellite imagery that can better differentiate between the edge of the landmass and islands. Scroll down to set sail with these 12 amazing pictures of antarctica. The view shows the ross ice shelf. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go on a journey to antarctica.

This baby s a behemoth. A new view from space shows antarctica s newest bouncing baby iceberg.