This is an image of the Foxe Basin, up in the Northwestern Passages in northern Canadian, north of the Hudson bay. It seems that the ice has a brownish tint. The reason that this subtle difference is so important is discovering the reason for the brownish tint of the ice. One theory is from anthropogenic sources such as aerosols from industrial factories that have been emitted in the atmosphere and being deposited on the ice. Other sources could include sediment movement in the ocean. So looking at multiple images of the same area at different times and looking at other physical properties of the ice, we can possibly get a better sense of sediment movements in the ocean.
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