Just days after a powerful nor’easter dumped snow across a thousand miles of the U.S. East Coast, another blast of bitterly cold air spilled into the region. One of our Earth observing satellites saw the many rivers, bays and estuaries that have frozen over, including some that only rarely have ice.
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The first image shows ice in the Delaware Bay – between New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware – and the northern part of the Chesapeake Bay between Maryland and Delaware.
Ice in the Albemarle Sound in North Carolina is visible in the second image.
The third image shows Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, with ice in Buzzards Bay and Nantucket Sound.
The Terra satellite that captured these views explores the connections between Earth's atmosphere, land, snow and ice, ocean, and energy balance to understand Earth's climate and climate change and to map the impact of human activity and natural disasters on communities and ecosystems.
Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response/Adam Voiland
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