Ok, technically this is not a great picture but it intrigued me – it was taken from the aisle of an NWA passenger jet (while leaning over a large Armenian gentleman) flying at 37,000 feet (about seven miles high) over the ice-packs of the Greenland/Davis Strait/Hudson Bay area of North America earlier this month. The metadata on the JPEG file says it was 9:40am in the morning but I'm not sure if that was UK time or US time – mid-flight you are in the middle of so many different timezones that it's all a bit academic. I had to tweak the image a little in Photoshop to overcome to contrast and glare but this is pretty much what I saw with my own eyes. Have the ice-packs melted earlier this year?



(Seven miles high, somewhere over Greenland/Canada, 09:40am, May 11th 2008, f 4.9 - 1/1000 - ISO 200)