Our visual mission lives on
Tongues from Space
Much of what Recogn.ice set out to do, to make people really see glaciers, continues at Tongues from Space.
Compare the tongues of the largest Swiss glaciers in satellite images, one summer scene per year since 2016. Slide between years, fly over the ice in the 3D viewer, and create and share your own animations.
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data, processed via the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem. Terrain: swisstopo.
What Recogn.ice was
A nonprofit founded in January 2019 by natural scientists and journalists, with one goal: for people to recognise, understand and ultimately care for the frozen parts of our planet, the cryosphere.
Still going
For Your Ice
For Your Ice is active. Visit it for prints, photos and its own blog.
With For Your Ice we bring the most beautiful glaciers right into your living room. The design is abstract, yet scientifically true and it aims to stimulate both the eye and the brain. It is a page out of the heroic journal of a glacier that has been on the move for thousands of years. A snapshot, frozen in time. For you and for your ice.
Latest posts
- Official launch: For Your Ice meets Morteratsch Glacier!
- The prec.ice meaning of “recognize”
- The Speed of Ice
Supported at the time by the World Glacier Monitoring Service.
Thank you!
A big thank you to everybody who was part of Recogn.ice: the founders and friends who helped from day one with design, IT, legal and much more, the advisors and scientists, everyone who supported us with donations and in the crowd-funding of the first Freezy Frame, and everyone who shared their images, their stories and their time.
Thank you to Sebastian Marbacher for designing the Freezy Frame, to U. Raz for the panorama pictures, to the Città di Lugano and Monte San Salvatore for hosting the first frame, to Prof. em. Dr. Iwar Werlen and the Region Piedmonte for the glacier name origins, to the World Glacier Monitoring Service for its support, to Quinn Wenning and all other guest authors, to the photographers whose images are on this site, to the journalists who told our story, and to everyone who climbed into a frame, posed and shared the picture.
You made it possible. ❄