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Signs of Flow Atop Antarctic Ice
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Published January 20, 2018
Ice moves slowly, and fractures are often the only perceptible indication of movement.
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Ice in the Weddell Sea
Published January 2, 2018
Areas of new sea ice are visible in the vicinity of the Larsen C ice shelf off the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Southern Antarctic Peninsula
Published December 28, 2017
Approaching the icy continent by aircraft, the vast expanse of water and ice is suddenly broken by gray and brown rocky mountaintops
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A Birdseye View of Iceberg A-68A
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Published November 23, 2017
From an altitude of just over 1,000 feet, photographs from aircraft give an uncommon look at the massive Antarctic iceberg.
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Icy Fingers in the Weddell Sea
Published November 22, 2017
As a result of the collision, blocks of ice slide above and below each other in a pattern that resembles a zipper or interlocking fingers.
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New Rift on Petermann Glacier
Published April 19, 2017
Glaciologists are watching a new crack that has formed on a glacier in northwest Greenland.
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Meltwater Channels on Ellesmere Island
Published April 12, 2017
Meltwater has carved sinuous channels on the DeVries Glacier in the Canadian Arctic.
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Greenland’s Lesser-Known Glaciers
Published September 17, 2016
NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission concluded its 2016 airborne campaign in Greenland.
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Daugaard-Jensen Land, Greenland
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Published December 30, 2015
Not all parts of Greenland are entirely covered with ice.
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Sea Ice in the Bellingshausen Sea
Published October 4, 2015
A spectacular view of sea ice was captured during an Operation IceBridge flight in 2014; the mission surveyed ice at both poles again in 2015, this time simultaneously.
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Laser-like Focus on Arctic Sea Ice
Published April 5, 2015
In twilight conditions, green lasers that measure polar ice are easily visible with the naked eye.
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Finding a Constellation with a Laser
Published November 16, 2014
Operation IceBridge spotted a piece of U.S. history and measured it with a lidar instrument.
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Operation IceBridge Turns Five
Published October 16, 2014
Sea ice in the Amundsen Sea was among the first images acquired by the airborne campaign designed to study Earth's polar ice.
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An Old Bird on the Greenland Ice
Published June 1, 2014
A World War II era airplane has become a visual waypoint for researchers flying on the IceBridge polar mapping missions.
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Flying Over Vostok Station
Published December 21, 2013
A camera aboard a NASA aircraft snapped this picture of Vostok Station as it passed over the remote Antarctic outpost during a surveying flight in November 2013.
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Birth of an Iceberg
Published November 3, 2011
In a routine survey of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier, NASA scientists discovered a large crack in the ice which will soon lead to the birth of a new giant iceberg.
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Flying over Arctic Sea Ice
Published April 1, 2011
Taken from a low-flying airplane on March 26, 2011, these detailed photos of Arctic sea ice show the richly varied texture in the ice floe.
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Electricity Losses in Northeastern Japan
Published March 19, 2011
This color-coded composite image shows lights working or not after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The image compares observations from March 12, 2011, to data collected in 2010.
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