English: Iceland is Europe's second largest island. You will find it at the southern tip of the Arctic Circle. Even though it is so close to the Arctic, Iceland has a surprisingly mild climate, because the tail end of the Gulf Stream Current carries heat with it through the Atlantic Ocean from the Southern Tropics. And the intersection of two tectonic plates below Iceland give rise to a high level of volcanic activity. The warmer waters and volanic activity, two climatic conditions unique to this area, make it difficult to obtain cloudless images of Iceland from space, making this image of the island, taken by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 17 May 2020, a rare capture. The shot lets you see the exact boundaries of Iceland’s four permanent ice caps: Langjökull and Hofsjökull located within the interior west; Mýrdalsjökull on the southern coast, and Vatnajökull on the eastern coast. Vatnajökull is the largest of the four ice caps and rests on top of three active volcanoes, including the Grímsvötn Volcano, which has been showing signs of unrest during the past few weeks. The Copernicus Sentinel satellites provide data to study our land, ice, oceans and the atmosphere to provide a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics of our Earth.