NASA Begins Final Year of Airborne Polar Ice Mission

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NASA Begins Final Year of Airborne Polar Ice Mission

  This is the last year for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s most comprehensive airborne survey of ice change. Since the launch of its first Arctic campaign in spring 2009, IceBridge has enabled discoveries ranging from water aquifers hidden within snow in southeast Greenland, to the first map indicating where the base of the massive Greenland Ice […]

A Decade of Exploring Alaska’s Mountain Glaciers

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A Decade of Exploring Alaska’s Mountain Glaciers

 Flying low over some of the most dramatic landscapes on the planet, a cadre of scientists and pilots have been measuring changes in Alaskan glaciers as part of NASA’s Operation IceBridge for almost a decade. The team has seen significant change in ice extent and thickness over that time. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight […]