Columbia Icefields Highlight details of the Columbia Icefields To visit the Columbia Icefield is to travel back in time. To travel to a place where the story of the Ice Age is still being written. Straddling the Continental Divide, this is the largest icefield in the Rockies. Here, on a high, cold plateau, perennial snows accumulate and turn to ice, so much ice that it feeds six major outlet glaciers.
Meltwaters flow to the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
To obtain the rsolution necessary for this unique space look at the Columbia Icefield and its glaciers, WorldSat combined a more detailed black and white image from the European Spot satellite with colour and infra-red imagery from the US Landsat satellite. These satellites orbit the Earth at an altitude of approximately 700 km, continuously transmitting images of the Earth's surface to receiving stations around the world.