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Photo of calving front of an ice shelf in West Antarctica.

Warm Ocean, Not Icebergs, Causing Most of Ice Shelves' Mass Loss

06.13.2013
Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found.
Cropped graphical interpretation of Antarctica bedrock

IceBridge Mission Contributes to New Map of Antarctica

06.04.2013
The new map's improved precision will lead to better calculations of Antarctic ice volume and its potential contribution to sea level rise.
WorldView2 satellite image of Wilkins Ice Shelf

Breakup Continues on the Wilkins Ice Shelf

05.30.2013
Many ice shelves fringe Antarctica, including the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, which underwent a series of breakup events in ‘98, ‘08, and ‘09.
Photo of two teachers in plane on IceBridge mission.

Science Teachers See NASA IceBridge Research

05.23.2013
NASA's Operation IceBridge gave three teachers—one each from the United States, Greenland and Denmark—an inside view of research by hosting a field research experience during the 2013 Arctic campaign.
Photo of Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland

NASA Data Pinpoints Glaciers' Role in Sea Level Rise

05.16.2013
99% of Earth’s land ice is locked into the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. But from 2003–2009, the world’s other glaciers contributed equally to sea level rise as the two ice sheets combined.
Photo of NASA Wallops Aircraft Office flight engineer Brian Yates meets his children after the P-3B returned from Operation IceBridge’s Arctic 2013 campaign

Operation IceBridge: A Stormy Finish

05.09.2013
After several weeks of survey flights the IceBridge team has returned from the Arctic and have started processing collected data and planning for the Antarctic campaign coming up later this year.
Photo of Steensby Glacier flowing around a sharp bend in a deep canyon

Expanding Operation IceBridge's Reach

05.02.2013
The team completed their 10th high-priority sea ice flight, coordinated with an ESA satellite team, expanded the mission's reach in the Arctic, revisited sites and studied a new feature in the ice.
Photo of GROVER on snow

NASA Rover Prototype Set To Explore Greenland Ice Sheet

05.01.2013
NASA's newest scientific rover is set for testing May 3 through June 8 in the highest part of Greenland.
Thumbnail photo of Saunders Island

NASA's IceBridge Finishing Up Successful Arctic Campaign

04.30.2013
With several weeks of science flights in the books, researchers with NASA's Operation IceBridge are on the way to completing another successful campaign.
Photo of Helheim Fjord in eastern Greenland seen from the NASA P-3B on the Apr. 5, 2013 IceBridge survey flight.

Operation Ice Bridge: East and West Coast Greenland Glaciers

04.10.2013
The second stage of IceBridge's Arctic deployment is now in full swing, with surveys of glaciers on both the east and west coasts of Greenland.
Artic snow and ice

The (Arctic) Fury Unleashed

04.10.2013
Yesterday we had 20-knot katabatic winds, cold air flowing off the ice sheet near the surface – strong winds, blowing the recent snow into our faces, which feels like being sandblasted...
A view of Jakobshavn fjord from NASA’s P-3B aircraft

Filling a Gap and Repeating Measurements

04.05.2013
After completing several successful missions out of Thule and Fairbanks the IceBridge team loaded up the P-3B and flew off to their new base of operations in Kangerlussuaq.
Screen capture from visualization showing Arctic Sea Ice Maximum of 2013

Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Fifth Lowest on Record

04.03.2013
The Arctic Ocean's icy cover reached its annual maximum extent on February 28. At 5.82 million square miles, the 2013 sea ice winter extent is the fifth lowest on record in the past 35 years.
Photo of sea ice outside aircraft window

Operation Ice Bridge: Sampling the Strait

04.02.2013
NASA researchers completed another survey of sea ice with a flight over part of the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland and in the Nares Strait.
Photo of the moon over the NASA P-3B prior to the IceBridge team’s 1 a.m. departure from Fairbanks, Alaska, on Mar. 26, 2013

New Collaborations and a Return to Thule

03.28.2013
NASA's Operation IceBridge closed out the Fairbanks portion of its 2013 Arctic campaign with a survey of the southern Beaufort Sea and a pre-dawn flight back to Greenland.
Photo of the P-3B waiting outside the hangar at Thule Air Base with the Greenland Ice sheet in the background.

IceBridge 2013 Mission: Off to a Productive Start

03.26.2013
The IceBridge 2013 Arctic campaign launched on Mar. 20 with a series of successful science flights north of Greenland, across the Arctic Basin and in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas north of Alaska.
Photo of a P-3B sitting in the hangar at Thule Air Base while the IceBridge team waits for fog to clear on the morning of Mar. 20, 2013.

NASA Begins New Season of Arctic Ice Science Flight

03.20.2013
NASA's Operation IceBridge scientists have begun another season of research activity over Arctic ice sheets and sea ice with the first of a series of science flights from Greenland completed today.
Thumbnail of teacher climbing icefall

NASA Workshop Transforms Teachers Into Glaciologists For a Week

03.13.2013
There are times in a teacher’s professional life when she or he hits a wall. For the participants of a NASA training program the wall was a 50-foot icefall that the the teachers proceeded to climb.
Photo of sea ice

NASA Scientists Part of Arctic Sea Ice Study

02.13.2013
NASA data and scientists contributed to a new study out of the United Kingdom that shows Arctic sea ice volume declining in recent years.
Montage of 2012 Science images

Reviewing Goddard's 2012 Highlights

12.28.2012
If NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center were to write a holiday letter, there would be no shortage of highlights to share. Gathered here are just a few of the shining moments from the Goddard 'household' in 2012.
DMS mosaic of lead in sea ice

Operation IceBridge Data Brings New Twist to Sea Ice Forecasting

12.19.2012
Sea ice thickness data gathered in April 2012 by NASA's Operation IceBridge has been used in seasonal sea ice forecasts for the first time.
Photo of ice on the Ellsworth Range in Antarctica as seen from the IceBridge DC-8

IceBridge 2012 Antarctic Campaign Retrospective

11.26.2012
Researchers with NASA's Operation IceBridge recently completed a five-week field campaign based out of Punta Arenas, Chile.
Photo of John Sonntag at his station on the aircraft

Anatomy of an IceBridge Mission

11.21.2012
An 11-hour Operation IceBridge mission over Antarctica is not a casual undertaking.

NASA, AGU to Host NASA Social in San Francisco

11.14.2012
NASA and the American Geophysical Union are inviting social media followers to a unique behind-the-scenes NASA Social on Tuesday, Dec. 4, in San Francisco.
Photo of a glacier shear margin seen from the NASA DC-8 on the Nov. 1 survey of the Ronne Ice Shelf grounding line.

Four More Flights Bring Strong Close to Antarctic Campaign

11.08.2012
NASA's Operation IceBridge closed out its 2012 Antarctic season with two surveys of Antarctic glaciers and two long-awaited flights over sea ice in the Weddell Sea. These four flights bring the airborne science campaign to a successful end with a total of 16 science missions and a total mileage equivalent to more than three times around the Earth's equator.
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