NASA EO-1 Image: Earth Observation - Greenland Melt Ponds

Each spring and summer, as the air warms up and the sunlight beats down on the Greenland ice sheet, sapphire-colored ponds spring up like swimming pools. 

As snow and ice melt atop the glaciers, the water flows in channels and streams and collects in depressions on the surface that are sometimes visible from space. 

These melt ponds and lakes sometimes disappear quickly - a phenomenon that scientists have observed firsthand in recent years.

The natural-colour image above was acquired on July 4, 2010, by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. 

This glacial ice field lies in southwestern Greenland, not far from Disko Bay (Disko Bugt in Danish) and Davis Strait. The center of the image is 68.91° North latitude and 48.54° West longitude.

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Image Credit: NASA

Copenhagen Suborbitals Launches SMARAGD-1 Rocket

Credit: Copenhagen Suborbitals 

The Danish private spaceflight group Copenhagen Suborbitals launched an homemade unmanned rocket Friday (July 27) to test spaceflight systems. 

The SMARAGD-1 rocket launched from the Sputnik launch platform in the Baltic Sea.

Video: Launch of SMARAGD-1 by Copenhagen Suborbitals

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This is it.. The launch of SMARAGD-1 by Copenhagen Suborbitals.
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US KC-135 Stratotanker: Royal Danish Air Force F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft

A US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 100th Air Refueling Wing prepares to fuel a flight of Royal Danish Air Force F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft in the US European Command area of responsibility.

ESA Observing the Earth from Space: Plankton Bloom arrives in Scandinavia

ESA - Observing the Earth - Earth from Space: Plankton arrives in Scandinavia

Envisat captures a crescent-shaped string of plankton in the North Sea weaving through the Scandinavian region.

Norway (left) and Sweden (right), part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, are visible at the top, and Denmark is at bottom right.

The emerald green lake seen in Sweden is Vänern, the country’s largest.

The green water around Denmark is due to sediments being transported in the water. Also visible (image centre) is Norway’s second largest fjord, Hardangerfjord. Envisat's MERIS acquired this image on 3 May 2010 at a resolution of 300 m.

Credits: ESA