NASA has released stunning new images of never-before-seen ice swirls in Siberia.
Taken using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer – or MODIS for short – housed on NASA's Aqua satellite, the ice swirls were captured in the Sea of Okhotsk.
The sea actually links Russia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea, as it bleeds into the Sea of Japan.
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And while searching on the P'Yagina Peninsula, the experts found incredible-looking ice swirls last month.
A spokesman said: “The freely drifting ice, subject to wind and currents, formed a series of spirals off the coast of Russia.
“A group of islands—too small to see clearly at this scale—off the eastern tip of the land may be responsible for the small eddies in that area.
“Spirals such as these can form downstream of a stationary object that obstructs fluid flow.
“An influx of frigid Siberian air, in addition to inflows of freshwater from rivers that lower the salinity and raise the freezing point of the water, create conducive conditions for ice to form during the colder months.”
The P'Yagina Peninsula is one of the world's most remote an uninhabited places in Siberia.
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Getting to it is virtually impossible unless you have specialised equipment to navigate its harsh landscape – hence why images of it are only taken using extremely powerful space cameras.
It can also be seen on Google Maps, which shows how the landmass is full of mountains and rocket lands.
The Aqua satellite specifically searches for precipitation, evaporation and water on the planet.
It was launched in 2002, and has cost an eye-watering near-£1billion.
The MODIS equipment was actually launched in 1999, and takes images of Earth every one to two days.
They are snapped at an astonishing 1km resolution – which means that every pixel in the images it captures are around 1km across.
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