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With extreme cold-weather gear, scientific instruments, and two tank-like snow machines called PistenBullys, NASA...
The P-3B is waiting outside the hangar at Thule Air Base with the Greenland Ice sheet in the background. Today,...
STS059-90-098 (9-20 April 1994) --- Ice-covered Lake Baikal, in Siberia, is about 400 miles long within a major rift...
This image of Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Fjord with Kap Atholl in the background was taken during an Operation...
With extreme cold-weather gear, scientific instruments, and two tank-like snow machines called PistenBullys, NASA...
A northern Greenland glacier as seen by NASA's P-3B aircraft on May 3, 2012. Credit: Michael Studinger/NASA...
A glacial canyon in northern Greenland as seen by NASA's P-3B aircraft on May 3, 2012. Credit: Michael...
At the southern end of the Earth, a NASA plane carrying a team of scientists and a sophisticated instrument suite to...
A wider view of mountains showing the distinctive geology of the Geikie Plateau region in eastern Greenland, as seen...
The calving front of the Jakobshavn Glacier in western Greenland, as seen from NASA's P-3B aircraft on April 21,...
Frozen meltwater lake along the northeast Greenland coast, as seen from NASA's P-3B aircraft on May 7, 2012. Credit:...
Mountain ridges showing the distinctive geology of the Geikie Plateau region in eastern Greenland, as seen from...
Antarctica—the continent at the southernmost reach of the planet—is fringed by cold, often frozen waters of the...
On April 8, 2011, IceBridge flew a mission to coastal areas in southwest Greenland. Mountains and an open-water...
For the second straight year, NASA researchers endured low temperatures, biting winds, and high altitude to conduct...
James Jacobson, a Data Analyst based out of Ames Research Center, explains his Digital Mapping System instrument to...
In May 2014, two new studies concluded that a section of the land-based West Antarctic ice sheet had reached a point...
On April 11, 2011, IceBridge finally got the clear weather necessary to fly over glaciers in southeast Greenland,...
On April 11, 2011, IceBridge finally got the clear weather necessary to fly over glaciers in southeast Greenland....
NASA image acquired September 6, 2010 The Matusevich Glacier flows toward the coast of East Antarctica, pushing...
NASA’s PREFIRE mission aims to improve global climate change predictions by expanding our understanding of heat loss...
Calving front of an ice shelf in West Antarctica. The traditional view on ice shelves, the floating extensions of...
The diagram – based on data used in a July 2024 NASA-funded study – shows polar motion, a phenomenon that results...
For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge, a NASA mission that conducts aerial surveys of polar ice, has...