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NASA | Operation IceBridge Discovers Massive Crack in Ice Shelf
In October, 2011, NASA's Operation IceBridge discovered a major rift in the Pine Island Glacier in western Antarctica. This crack, which extends at least 18 miles and is 50 meters deep, could produce an iceberg more than 800 square...
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NASA | OIB: NASA and ESA in an Arctic Alliance
For the second straight year, NASA's Operation IceBridge is collaborating with the European Space Agency's CryoVEx program, flying aircraft low over Arctic sea ice while ESA's CryoSat satellite orbits above. In this video, IceBridge...
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NASA | OIB Flights South 2014: A Sea Ice Mystery
Where’s it coming from? With global average temperatures rising, it would be natural to assume that total quantities of sea ice would be falling. But it’s not. Scientists have begun to observe sea ice increases around Antarctica, and the...
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice 101
NASA climate scientist Tom Wagner provides a look at the state of Arctic sea ice in 2009 and discusses NASA's role in monitoring the cryosphere. Learn More: Or get tweeted by NASA:
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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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NASA | A Selective History of Arctic Sea Ice Observations, Part 2
The study of Arctic sea ice changed forever with the dawn of the Space Age and the first Earth-observing satellites. Part 2 of our animated timeline picks up where Part 1 left off — with the launch of the TIROS weather satellite.
Food Farmer Earth
Winter Farming: A Tale of Bitter and Sweet
When it comes to farming through the winter months, Tom DeNoble of DeNoble's Farm Fresh Produce in Tillamook is no romantic.
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New undersea cable to go through the Arctic Sea
Finland-based Fiber optic infrastructure company Cinia and Russian telecommunications operator MegaFon have joined hands to build a fiber optic cable across the Arctic Ocean.
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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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NASA | ARISE Arctic Mission Takes Shape
Crews at NASA Goddard’s Wallops Flight Facility are hard at work integrating a suite of instruments into a C-130 aircraft in preparation for the start of the ARISE campaign later this month. ARISE, which stands for Arctic Radiation...
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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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Arctic Sea Ice Is the Thinnest and Youngest It's Been in 60 Years
Working from a combination of satellite records and declassified submarine sonar data, NASA scientists have constructed a 60-year record of Arctic sea ice thickness. Right now, Arctic sea ice is the youngest and thinnest its been since...
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2021 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Extent Ranks 7th-Lowest on Record
On March 21, 2021, Arctic sea ice reached its maximum extent for winter 2020-2021, tying with 2007 for the seventh-lowest maximum on record. Music: "Amazing Discoveries" from Universal Production Music Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space...
Food Farmer Earth
Growing winter vegetables - Mobile Minute
Winter is a challenge for farmers who grow during this season. It also can have it's rewards in the form of extra sweetness.
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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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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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New Arctic Lakes Could Soon Be a Major Source of Atmospheric Methane
For centuries, a massive store of carbon has been locked underground in the Arctic's permanently frozen soil known as permafrost. As Earth's climate continues to warm, that carbon has begun to leach into the atmosphere, the result of...
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NASA | Rendezvous with an Ice-Bound Vessel
Having just arrived in Greenland, the first challenge for the Operation IceBridge Arctic 2015 campaign was to survey a broad swath of Arctic sea ice … and along the way, locate and precisely overfly a Norwegian research vessel frozen in...
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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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Countdown to ICESat-2 Launch
NASA is about to launch the agency's most advanced laser instrument of its kind into space. The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, will provide critical observations of how ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice are...
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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...
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NASA Studies Details of a Greening Arctic
NASA scientists used almost 30 years of data from the NASA/U.S. Geological Survey Landsat satellites to track changes in vegetation in Alaska and Canada. Of the more than 4 million square miles, 30 percent had increases in vegetation...