With over 198 000 glaciers in the world, you can always find a glacier that fits your mood or a given occasion. So why not for example celebrate the first Image of the Week of May with a picture of the aptly named May Glacier?
May Glacier is in fact not named after the month, but after Mr May, an officer onboard the Flying Fish during her expedition to the East Antarctic coast in the 1840s. Apart from that, there is not much to say about this 9 x 11 km glacier located in East Antarctica around 130°E, except that it is really hard to find a picture with the keywords “may” and “glacier”… So I let you enjoy the Image of the Week, which combines three satellite images of May Glacier (at the centre) and its surroundings exactly a month ago, when the skies were clear and the sea ice pretty:
- left, from optical imagery;
- centre, from infrared;
- right, from Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar.
See you in a month to talk about the June(au) ice field!
