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Greenland’s glacier loss is accelerating
A new study using satellite images finds that Greenland’s glacier melt is accelerating.
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Two New Satellites Set to Study One of Earth's Most Critically Changing Regions
In 2018, NASA will intensify its focus on one of the most critical but remote parts of our changing planet with the launch of two new satellite missions and an array of airborne campaigns. GRACE-FO and ICESat-2 will use radically...
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NASA | Rising Seas: Science on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Enjoy a deep dive into sea level rise research as NASA scientists and their colleagues discuss their research on and around the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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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...
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Field Study Sheds New Light on Melt Zone
Five years after a NASA-funded field study returned to to set up camp once again in the melt zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet, a new study adds to the rich findings from this innovative project. We look back on this bold undertaking,...
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NASA | Greenland's Ice Layers Mapped in 3D
Peering into the thousands of frozen layers inside Greenland’s ice sheet is like looking back in time. Each layer provides a record of not only snowfall and melting events, but what the Earth’s climate was like at the dawn of...
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Satellites show Greenland’s melting ice is causing seas to rise
Greenland’s ice sheet contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 6 meters, and it’s melting at an alarming rate.
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Ice Core Secrets Could Reveal Answers to Global Warming - Science Nation
At the Stable Isotope Lab in Boulder, Colo., scientists are doing a lot of the same things that those CSI folks do on TV. But instead of being "crime scene investigators," these experts are more like "cold scene investigators."...
The March of Time
Greenland embassy Minister
MOT 1941: DENMARK EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON D.C.: EXT MS Danish Embassy plaque. INT MS Danish Minister Henry de Kauffman (unconfirmed) looking at map of Greenland. CU Signatures on treaty. WWII
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Operation IceBridge: What (and Who) it Takes to Keep a Mission Flying
This year marks the tenth Arctic spring campaign for Operation IceBridge, a cryosphere-focused mission tasked with mapping the fastest-changing areas of the Greenland Ice Sheet and measuring sea ice thickness across the western Arctic...
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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...
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NASA | From the Cockpit: Arctic Sea Ice with Commentary
You've seen the great cockpit footage from Best of IceBridge Arctic '13, now go behind the scenes for 9 minutes of scientific commentary with Operation IceBridge Project Scientist Michael Studinger and NASA sea ice researcher Nathan...
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NASA | IceBridge Kicks Off Campaign with “New” Aircraft
NASA’s Operation IceBridge is back in the field, but this time, there’s a twist. Instead of using the P-3 or DC-8 aircraft from previous campaigns, they’ve outfitted a C-130 cargo plane for the trip. Science flights begin this week as...
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The Northwest passage
Vanessa and I travelled aboard the expedition cruise ship Ocean Endeavour while filming with Adventure Canada. From Greenland to Pond Inlet and beyond here is part of our amazing experience.
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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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NASA Mission Maps 16 Years of Ice Loss
Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, scientists have made precise, detailed measurements of how the elevation of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have changed over 16 years. The...
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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 | Get Ready for the August 1, 2008 Total Solar Eclipse
On August 1, 2008 a rare total solar eclipse will appear in the skies over parts of Canada, Greenland, Russia, Mongolia, and China. During this spectacular event, the moon will cross in front of the sun, completely blocking out the sun's...
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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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Sea Level Rise Accelerates Over Time
Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate, as previously thought, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European satellite data. If the rate of ocean rise...
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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...