Helicopter eye view of ice floes, melt ponds, areas of brash ice, and other phenomena. this shot was taken closer to the surface than arct0483 and hummocky areas can be seen on some areas of the floe indicating second-year to multi- year ice.

Helicopter eye view of ice floes, melt ponds, areas of brash ice, and other phenomena.

Helicopter eye view of ice floes, melt ponds, areas of brash ice, and other phenomena.

Helicopter eye view of ice floes, melt ponds, areas of brash ice, and other phenomena.

Helicopter approaching the USCGC HEALY after an overflight of ice.

USCGC HEALY and Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker LOUIS S. ST. LAURENT steaming through the ice as seen from helicopter. Note lineations in ice as well as rectangular feature in left lower center.

Ice floes on the edge of a polynya.

Seemingly endless melt ponds and ice floes below a gray sky.

Ice floes, melt ponds, and a polynya seen below a gray sky.

Hummocky multi-year ice interspersed with newer flatter appearing ice.

A beautiful heart-shaped melt pond in multi-year ice.

A lone observer watching melt ponds and ice floes pass below the bow of the USCGC HEALY.

Looking toward hummocky multi-year ice contrasted with smoother newer ice in the foreground.

Aquamarine melt ponds with a veneer of thin ice

Mesmerized by melt ponds with a veneer of thin ice

Brash ice next to ice floes of hummocky multi-year ice.

A ridge in multi-year ice with elliptical aquamarine melt ponds.

A ridge in hummocky multi-year ice flows with aquamarine melt ponds.

Interlocking melt ponds with new ice surface.

Melt ponds with new ice on surface.

Melt ponds with new ice on surface.

Frazil ice blowing into bands on surface of water.

Frazil ice blowing into bands on surface next to ice floe.

Frazil ice blowing into bands on surface in large area of open water.

Remnants of a melting ice floe.

Honeycombed remnants of a melting ice floe.

Aquamarine melt ponds in multi-year ice.

Aquamarine melt ponds in multi-year ice.

Aquamarine melt ponds in multi-year ice.

Multi-year ice with melt ponds

Aquamarine melt ponds in multi-year ice.

Fog over a large area of open water in the ice pack. Within half an hour the CGC HEALY was back in the pack ice.

Aquamarine melt ponds in multi-year ice.

A large aquamarine keel is apparent on the edge of a multi-year ice floe.

A large aquamarine keel is apparent on the edge of a multi-year ice floe. Brash ice to left in image.

A large aquamarine keel is apparent on the edge of a multi-year ice floe.

Melting honeycombed ice floe.

Honeycombed melting ice

Aquamarine melt ponds in multi-year ice.

An ice floe in open water

The edge of an area of multi-year ice with aquamarine melt ponds.

The edge of an area of multi-year ice with aquamarine melt ponds.

An area of first year ice floes

A junction area of multi-year ice floes with aquarine melt ponds and smoother first year ice.

Looking down to aquamarine colored ice with melt ponds melting through to underlying seawater.

A large area of open water with the ice pack in the distance.

Melt pools with ice crystals

A large area of open water with the ice pack in the distance.

Aquamarine melt ponds in multi-year ice.

Hummocky multi-year ice.