The Thaw Lakes No. 1 — satellite art print of Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska, USA, captured 2026-07-05

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The Thaw Lakes No. 1

Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska, USA

70.62, -153.29 · Captured 2026-07-05

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On 5 July 2026, the Sentinel-2 satellite looked down on the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska, where thawing permafrost has left thousands of polygon-edged tundra cells and thermokarst lakes scattered across the flats like a cracked mosaic — a landscape whose geometry is written by ice, not water or wind.