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The summer thaw underway on the fringe of eastern Greenland creates a fantastic natural collage of colour and texture. Inland snow and ice make a white blanket, while closer to the sea; the annual snow has retreated from much of the rocky coastline and from the surface of some glaciers, which appear slightly gray. In the fjords, melt water carrying fine glacial sediment colours the water turquoise. Sea ice has fractured into geometric blocks with small chunks of ice scattered in the fjords like confetti or crushed into such small pieces that it appears like froth or foam swirling in the waters of the Greenland Sea.

Image Credit: NASA/MODIS RRT.