All was well at the North Pole this summer, when Santa
and his elves were busily making toys and taking orders for this Christmas.
NASA's Terra satellite was able to piece together a number of images it took to
give us a complete look at the North Pole, which is usually very difficult to
see by satellites, so Santa can keep his exact location secret.
On June 30, 2011 the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite made multiple passes over the
Arctic from its orbit in space, capturing a true-color image of the
summer lands and sea-ice near the North Pole on each pass. Individual
images were then pieced together to create a large mosaic of the area,
which gives a broader view that would not be possible with individual
images.
In this mosaic of the Arctic, the polar ice cap appears blue-white,
while the ice covering land appears bright white. The ice of
Greenland, in the lower left (southwest), is especially bright. Clouds
also appear bright white, and can be difficult to separate from ice in
true-color images. Most of the clouds in this image appear in
billowing swirls, while ice tends to be smoother. This can only be
confirmed in the false-color images that were also generated by MODIS
that same day.
The North Pole is found northeast off the coast of Greenland, in the
middle of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean and roughly near the center of
this image. This is the northernmost point on Earth. From the North
Pole, all directions are south. Santa will be leaving from here on the
night of the 24th and circling the globe.
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