English: From an altitude of 705 kilometres, the biting cold and snowy hassle of winter melts away and is replaced by minimalist beauty. The clouds that normally shroud much of the Arctic clears to unveil a snow-bound Alaska.

On the ground,

and primary ecosystems.

Inland, the vast boreal forest is dark, coloured by evergreen trees that shed snow from their tall, conical forms. The treeless tundra, on the other hand, is bright white. The low shrubs and mosses on the tundra—along the coast and above the tree line in the mountains—do not break through the snow, so the landscape is an unrelieved white except for the slender rivers winding across the landscape.

Winter white extends to the

. Moving away from land, ice creeps across the open sea in wisps and curls that resemble foamy froth.

Beyond the clutches of ice, the Bering Sea shows signs of turbulence and the dark waters swirl with vibrant green. Such colour often points to phytoplankton, but this burst of colour could also be sediment brought to the surface by powerful waves spawned by winter storms.

The view spans about 980 km (610 mi) north to south, centred on a latitude of c. 59° N.