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   June 15, 2022 - Ice-covered Yana Bay   
      
      Gulf of Yana   
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      Sitting in far northeastern Siberia, Yana Bay typically wears a coat of   
      ice for nine months out of the year. By mid-June 2022, the sea ice on   
      Yana Bay was cracked and tinted light blue, both early signs of   
      melting. Sea ice normally appears bright white in true-color satellite   
      images, but as ice melts, it tends to become water-logged. This changes   
      the reflectivity, lending a light blue tint to the ice. Yana Bay is a   
      Gulf of the Laptev Sea that sits off the coast of the Sakha Republic   
      (Yakutia), Russia. It is named for the Yana River, which flows   
      northward for about 542 miles (872 km) to form a large delta on the   
      shores of the Yana Bay. The river freezes by October and ice breakup   
      occurs in late May or early June.   
      
      The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board   
      NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of ice-covered Yana   
      Bay on June 13. Fast ice still clings to the shores of the mainland and   
      islands, despite signs of melt. Ice-free water can be seen in the   
      northwest corner of the image and an area of open water with chunks of   
      ice still floating on the surface sits between the western side of the   
      side ice and the shore of the Sakha Republic. The swampy, bog-filled   
      Delta is pock-marked with hundreds of round white spots, each marking a   
      frozen lake. The Yana River Delta contains some of the oldest evidence   
      of human habitation of the Arctic, with signs of mammoth hunting dating   
      back to at least 27,000 years ago.   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Terra   
      Date Acquired: 6/13/2022   
      Resolutions:  1km (332.3 KB),  500m (1 MB),  250m (317.3 KB)   
      Bands Used: 1,4,3   
      Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-06-15   
       
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