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NASA | OIB: High and Low over the Rift
This year Operation IceBridge has returned twice to the Pine Island Glacier, the site of a massive glacial crack poised to potentially create an iceberg the size of New York City. Operation IceBridge returned to the Pine Island Glacier...
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NASA | GROVER in Greenland
From May 6 to June 8, 2013, GROVER was in Greenland. GROVER, the Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, also known as the Greenland Rover, was based at Summit Camp on the ice sheet of Greenland. NASA's Dr. Lora...
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NASA | GROVER Heads to Greenland
NASA is ready to test a new student-designed rover at the Summit Camp in Greenland, a research station sitting on a two-mile thick sheet of ice. The Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, or GROVER, carries...
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NASA | Flying Low over Southeast Greenland
Few of us ever get to see Greenland's glaciers from 500 meters above the ice. But in this video — recorded on April 9,2013 in southeast Greenland using a cockpit camera installed and operated by the National Suborbital Education and...
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NASA | First Landing: IceBridge P-3 on the Sea Ice Runway
With the successful landing of the NASA P-3 aircraft on McMurdo Station's seasonal sea ice runway, Operation IceBridge is opening the door to a whole new suite of remote science targets in Antarctica.
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NASA | Earth Science Week | How is the Global Earth ...
Earth is currently in a period of warming. Over the last century, Earth's average temperature rose about 1.1 F (0.6C). In the last two decades, the rate of our world's warming accelerated. Scientists predict that the globe will continue...
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NASA | Building a Bigger Bridge
Operation IceBridge is heading back into the Arctic with two aircraft and the most sophisticated suite of instruments ever flown in polar regions. This year's mission will focus on sea ice thickness, the Canadian Ice Caps, Greenland ice...
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2019 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Continues Trend of Decline
Every year, sea ice fluctuates through the seasons, growing in the winter and shrinking in the summer. This year, Arctic sea ice reached its annual maximum on March 13, 2019. It wasn’t a record low, but it continued a trend of declining...
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NASA | The Bedrock Beneath
Our understanding of what lies beneath the world's biggest ice sheet has taken another leap forward. In this video we strip away Antarctic ice to reveal a new, and much more detailed map of the bedrock below. This map, called Bedmap2,...
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NASA | OIB Flights South 2014: Birds and Planes
Research flights over Antarctica generally travel over some of the most remote, lifeless places on Earth. But penguins call the Antarctic coastline home. That’s why flight planers with NASA’s Operation IceBridge pay close attention to...
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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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NASA | Daily Arctic Sea Ice 2005-2006
This animation shows the seasonal advance and retreat of sea ice over the Arctic from 2005-2006. The false color of the sea ice, derived from the AMSR-E instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite, highlights the fissures in the sea ice by...
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NASA Measuring Sea Ice at the Peak of Melt
The Arctic sea ice pack is nearing its annual minimum extent, which is projected to be one of the lowest since satellite observations began. Using satellite data and airborne observations, NASA researchers are monitoring the...
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NASA | Surprise Shrimp Under Antarctic Ice
At a depth of 600 feet beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, a small shrimp-like creature managed to brighten up an otherwise gray polar day in late November 2009. This critter is a three-inch long Lyssianasid amphipod found beneath the...
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NASA | Rising Seas Teaser: Science on the Greenland Ice Sheet
A quick preview of the sights and sounds captured this summer as researchers ventured out on the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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NASA | OIB Flights South 2014: Mission Overview
Consistency counts when collecting scientific data. With global ice inventories in a profound state of change, it’s essential to maintain regular measurements of ice at the poles. NASA’s ICESat satellite amassed a substantial body of...
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NASA | Greenland Ice Flights
Nearly every spring since 1991, researchers including William Krabill of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., have flown on a NASA aircraft over Greenland, collecting measurements of ice thickness from an altitude of...
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NASA | From the Cockpit: The Best of IceBridge Arctic '13
The views from the cockpit of NASA's P-3B aircraft on an Operation IceBridge campaign are truly stunning. The mission doesn't travel to both ends of the Earth for the scenery of course -- the airborne mission is there to collect radar,...
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NASA | IceBridge Prepares for Wheels Up
Here's a small dose of how it feels to be part of NASA’s Operation IceBridge team during a typical Kangerlussuaq morning, from that frigid ride to the airfield to wheels up over gorgeous Greenlandic scenery. IceBridge is deep into its...
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NASA | IceBridge Heads for the Coast
Take a break from your day to soak in the sights and sounds of an Operation IceBridge flight over Greenland's southwest coast. This video features both the rugged scenery of Greenland and the somewhat rugged interior of a NASA C-130, the...
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NASA | IceBridge 2011: Eight Down, One to Go
As of April 6, 2011, crew and scientists with NASA's Operation IceBridge mission have completed eight out of nine planned sea ice flights from Thule, Greeenland, and plan to fly one more from Kangerlussuaq. Michael Studinger, IceBridge...
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48 Years of Alaska's Glaciers
New time-lapse videos of Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space – spanning nearly 50 years – are providing scientists with new insights into how the planet’s frozen regions are changing. Using images from the NASA-USGS...
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NASA | Jakobshavn Glacier Retreat
Since measurements of Jakobshavn Isbrae were first taken in 1850, the glacier has gradually receded, finally coming to rest at a certain point for the past 5 decades. However, from 1997 to 2006, the glacier has begun to recede again,...
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I Is For Island - Upper Case
A cute and engaging video where the letter 'I' is taught with its alphabet letter sound along with different words beginning with 'I'.