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NASA | Petermann Ice Island 2012
This time-lapse video shows the calving of an ice island from Greenland's Petermann Glacier and the drifting of the ice down the fjord and southward through Nares Strait. The images were captured between July 9 and September 13, 2012, by...
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NASA | Operation IceBridge: Greenland, Spring 2010
The Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth's polar ice, kicked off its second year of study with NASA aircraft arriving in Greenland March 22, 2010. Visit the Operation IceBridge web site:Or check...
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NASA | Operation IceBridge: A Science Lab in the Arctic Sky
One of the keys to gathering data for Operation IceBridge is a highly modified McDonnell Douglas DC-8 jetliner, which NASA operates as a flying science laboratory. This workhorse DC-8 can fly long trips, allowing a suite of scientific...
Nature League
The Threats Facing Forests - Field Trip
In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit gets a first-hand look at the challenges facing forests in the Rocky Mountains, including fires, drought, climate change, and pine beetles. Special thanks to Professor Diana Six at the University of...
NASA
Tracking 3 Decades of Dramatic Glacial Lake Growth
In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change....
NASA
NASA's Operation IceBridge Completes 11 Years of Polar Surveys
For 11 years from 2009 to 2019, the planes of NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew above the Arctic, Antarctic and Alaska, gathering data on the height, depth, thickness, flow and change of sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. As the team and...
Curated Video
I WONDER - How Are Lakes Formed?
This video is answering the question of how are lakes formed.
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NASA | A Laser Scientist Answers 5 Questions About LVIS
With winter closing in, a new NASA airborne campaign launched October 31, 2013 in Greenland. For the first time, the Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor, or LVIS, is flying about NASA's new C-130 aircraft to measure the island's ice...
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Landsat 9 At Work
Landsat 9, which NASA is launching in September 2021, will collect the highest quality data ever recorded by a Landsat satellite, while still ensuring that these new measurements can be compared to those taken by previous generations of...
NASA
NASA | Five Teachers, 500 Meters Above Greenland
This year five teachers were invited on board NASA's P-3B aircraft to fly at 500 meters above the glaciers of Greenland with Operation IceBridge, a six-year mission to study Arctic and Antarctic ice. Two teachers from Greenland, two from...
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NASA | Keeping a Close Eye on Jakobshavn
Jakobshavn Glacier, one of the fastest moving glaciers in Greenland, has been the focus of IceBridge survey flights for five consecutive years. Here, images from an IceBridge mission on Apr. 4, 2013 and video footage from the 2012 Arctic...
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NASA | A Tour of the Cryosphere 2009
It has been said that the frozen parts of our planet, also known as the cryosphere, may be the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine' when it comes to climate change. This video shows some of the most dramatic fluctuations to our...
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Rising Waters: Out-of-Balance Ice Sheets
Greenland and Antarctica are home to most of the world's glacial ice – including its only two ice sheets – making them areas of particular interest to scientists. Combined, the two regions also contain enough ice, that if it were to melt...
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NASA | Operation IceBridge: Wheels Down in Thule
NASA's Operation IceBridge begins another season of science over the Arctic with survey flights out of Greenland. For the next several weeks, IceBridge will carry out a research campaign — the result of months of planning and discussion...
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NASA | Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica
This guided tour of the area surrounding McMurdo Station in Antarctica uses the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA). It's a great way to experience the frozen continent without any risk of frostbite.
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NASA | A Short Tour of the Cryosphere
The cryosphere consists of those parts of the Earth's surface where water is found in solid form, including areas of snow, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost, ice sheets, and icebergs. This animation portrays changes in the cryosphere through...
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Landsat's Global View of Ice Velocity
Ice from glaciers constantly flows into the ocean, but the speed the ice moves at changes. Landsat 8 provides near-real-time mapping of ice speed in nearly all the world’s frozen regions. Information like ice speed helps scientists study...
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Flying Alaska’s Glaciers with Operation IceBridge
After the launch of ICESat-2 in 2018, Operation IceBridge mostly came to a close. However, Operation IceBridge Alaska continues to work in the field studying and recording ice thickness in the region. Scientists from University Alaska...
Ancient Lights Media
Iceland
This clip looks at the physical features, climate and culture of Iceland.
TMW Media
Properties Of Water: Future use of water
What research is being conducted currently? How does it work? If successful, how can it help society? What careers deal with science and water?
Properties Of Water, Part 5
NASA
NASA | Operation Icebridge: Recovery Offshore 01
On Nov. 2, 2012 Operation IceBridge flew an 11-hour mission over the Recovery Glacier and Filchner Ice Shelf in eastern Antarctica. On the transit back home, NASA scientist John Sonntag gave a two-minute breakdown of the mission over the...
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NASA's ICESat-2 Looks Beyond the Icy Poles
ICESat-2's main science objective is ice, but the mission is also able to measure the heights of other features, including ocean bathymetry, trees and mountain glaciers. Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA): Lead Producer Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET):...
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NASA | IceBridge 2010 with Lora Koenig
This video shows a live interview with NASA Goddard cryospheric scientist Lora Koenig regarding Operation IceBridge and the 2010 Arctic sea ice maximum. Or get tweeted by NASA:
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IceBridge Zigzags out of Svalbard
Operation IceBridge just completed 40 research flights over ten weeks, including three based out of the remote and beautiful islands of Svalbard, Norway. Here is the story of one of its most distinctive missions, called Zig Zag East....