The Russian research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy and the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long are stuck in a zone of pack ice
The Russian research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy and the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long are stuck in a zone of pack ice
The satellite image covers an expanse of 100 by 55 kilometres. The Russian research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy and the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long lie trapped in a pack ice zone, seen in the TerraSAR-X image as a light to 'flaky' surface. Further east we see open water (in the right of the image) around 25 kilometres away from the ships.
