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NASA Studies an Unusual Arctic Warming Event
Winter temperatures are soaring in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row. The heat, accompanied by moist air, is entering the Arctic not only through the sector of the North Atlantic Ocean that lies between Greenland and Europe, as...
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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 | Lakes On A Glacier
How deep is that icy blue water on Greenland's ice sheet? Dr. Allen Pope, of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, is using data from the NASA/USGS Landsat 8 satellite to find out. In this video, Dr. Pope shares what he sees when he...
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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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Iceland
This clip looks at the physical features, climate and culture of Iceland.
Science360
Water Isotopes Leave Fingerprints For Climate Scientists
This project observes and analyzes the stable isotope composition of water vapor and precipitation, primarily at the 300 meter Boulder Atmospheric Observatory tower. The measurements are made using an optical measurement technology which...
The March of Time
Greenland harbor ships boats
MOT 1941: GREENLAND HARBOR: WS Ships & small boats in harbor Greenland coast. WS Sheep on rocks houses BG. WS 'Julius Thomse' Danish ship docked at pier. WS Small boat at sea iceberg BG.
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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 | Greenland's Mega Canyon
Hidden for all of human history, a 460 mile long canyon has been discovered below Greenland's ice sheet. Using radar data from NASA's Operation IceBridge and other airborne campaigns, scientists led by a team from the University of...
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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 | 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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Greenland's Extreme Melt, 1 Year Later
Last spring, NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew over one of Greenland’s earliest melt seasons on record. This year, the melt is progressing more typically, despite warm temperatures in the Arctic. Brooke Medley reflects on the differences...
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Dr. Piers Sellers visits Thule
Former astronaut and climate scientist Dr. Piers Sellers visits Thule, Greenland, one of the home bases for Operation IceBridge’s spring Arctic campaign. IceBridge is a 10-year airborne science mission measuring polar ice with a range of...
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Earth’s oceans hotter than any point in recorded history according to new study
2021 saw the hottest ocean temperatures ever recorded, adding to previous records in 2018 and 2019.
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NASA | Russian Runoff Freshens Canadian Arctic
The transpolar drift (purple arrows) is a dominant circulation feature in the Arctic Ocean that carries freshwater runoff (red arrows) from rivers in Russia across the North Pole and south towards Greenland. Under changing atmospheric...
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NASA | OPERACIÓN ICEBRIDGE: Explorando cambios en el hielo de Groenlandia
Operación Icebridge es una misión aérea de la NASA dedicada a estudiar cambios en la capa de hielo y el hielo marino en ambos polos del planeta. En la primavera de 2012, IceBridge llevó a cabo sucuarta misión ártica, sobrevolando áreas...
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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 | August 1, 2008 Total Solar Eclipse Preview
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 | Ask a Climate Scientist: Thinning Ice Sheets
How can Greenland's ice sheets still be more than 10,000 feet thick, if carbon dioxide is warming the planet?
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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....
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America’s Massive Global Military Presence Explained - TLDR News
The United States has the world’s largest military budget by some distance, so it’s no surprise they have a massive global presence. In this video we take a look at some of America’s lesser known overseas bases and some of their...
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Open Water
A glimpse into the lives of three Greenlanders: a hunter, a ship’s captain and a fisherman, individuals whose very existence and heritage is intertwined with the Arctic Ocean. Like many who live in the polar north, their fortunes...
Mr. Beat
Greenland and Iceland Compared
Iceland and Greenland Both are countries .um, well, Greenland is not exactly its own country. It's part of the Kingdom of Denmark, considered a self-governing constituent country. So it's almost a country? Kind of a country? Well, most...