Check out these awesome pictures captured by our OPS-SAT-1 spacecraft. Great job team! Getting the first images during the commissioning phase is a pretty special moment.
This image reveals part of an impressive uninhabited island north of Russia, first discovered in 1913. October Revolution Island is now known to be the 59th largest island in the world, and houses five domed ice caps – a mass of ice that covers less than 50,000 square kilometres (whereas larger ice masses are known as ice sheets). Captured on August 14, 2020.This rugged, remote terrain is one of the world's northernmost inhabited regions. A Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, part way between Norway and the North Pole, Svalbard is made up of glaciers and frozen tundra. Captured on July 26, 2020.At almost 11 pm local time, the Sun was still shining over this impressive large glacier near the town of Pyramiden in central Svalbard. One of the world’s northernmost inhabited areas, Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Captured on July 26, 2020.
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