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Dec 8, 2017
P-3B Waiting to Start the Day
The P-3B is waiting outside the hangar at Thule Air Base with the Greenland Ice sheet in the background. Today,...
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Mar 19, 2018
The Other Side of the Vortex
When the polar vortex dips south it often makes headlines. Frigid air, usually confined to the arctic, spills into...
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Jul 19, 2016
Record-Breaking Climate Trends 2016 – Rising Temperatures and Shrinking Sea Ice
Two key climate change indicators have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA...
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Dec 8, 2017
Sea Ice Patterns
On July 20, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy steamed south in the Arctic Ocean toward the edge of the sea ice. The...
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Dec 8, 2017
Healy at 3rd Ice Station
On July 6, 2011, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy parked in an ice floe for the 2011 ICESCAPE mission's third ice...
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Dec 8, 2017
Melt Pond Optics
On July 6, 2011, Don Perovich, of Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, used a spectroradiometer to...
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Dec 8, 2017
Mapping an Ice Station
On July 10, 2011, Melinda Webster of University of Washington mapped the locations where measurements were collected...
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Dec 8, 2017
Measuring Light
On July 13, 2011, Don Perovich, of Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, measured the light that drives...
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Dec 8, 2017
ICESCAPE Optical Insturments
On July 6, 2011, ICESCAPE scientists lowered optical instruments through a hole at the bottom of a melt pond, to...
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Dec 8, 2017
Retrieving the CTD:Rosette
On June 28, 2011, Holley Kelly, a teacher from Farragut High School, helped retrieve the CTD/Rosette ensemble from...
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Dec 8, 2017
Retrieving Dropped Supplies
On July 12, 2011, crew from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy retrieved a canister dropped by parachute from a...
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Aug 29, 2024
IceNode Prototype Under the Ice
A prototype of an autonomous robot, part of a project called IceNode being developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion...
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Dec 8, 2017
NASA’s Aerial Survey of Polar Ice Expands Its Arctic Reach
For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge, a NASA mission that conducts aerial surveys of polar ice, has...
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Dec 8, 2017
Approaching Sunrise
View just before sunrise over the Arctic Ocean during IceBridge's transit flight from Fairbanks to Thule on Mar. 26,...
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Dec 8, 2017
NASA scientists are flying over Alaska
As part of the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), NASA scientists are flying over Alaska and Canada,...
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Mar 2, 2017
A New Forecast Model Predicts Arctic Sea Ice Extent
Arctic sea ice extent ebbs and flows with the seasons. During the summer months, the ice melts and the edge recedes...
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Dec 8, 2017
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Beaufort Sea
Scientists on board the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Beaufort Sea, northeast of Barrow, Alaska, finished...
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Dec 8, 2017
Arctic Sea Ice Is Losing Its Bulwark Against Warming Summers
Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas, has been...
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Dec 8, 2017
Satellite Picture Shows the Snow-covered U.S. Deep Freeze
NOAA's GOES-East satellite provided a look at the frigid eastern two-thirds of the U.S. on Jan. 7, 2015, that shows...
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Dec 8, 2017
NASA Satellites See Santa's North Pole
All was well at the North Pole this summer, when Santa and his elves were busily making toys and taking orders for...
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Dec 8, 2017
Sampling Melt Ponds
On July 10, 2011, Jens Ehn of Scripps Institution of Oceanography (left), and Christie Wood of Clark University...
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Dec 8, 2017
Maneuvering Melt Ponds
On July 10, 2011, Don Perovich, of Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, maneuvered through melt ponds...
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Dec 8, 2017
Cutting Through Multiyear Ice
ICESCAPE scientists watched from the deck of the Healy as it cut a path through thick multiyear ice on July 6, 2011....
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Dec 8, 2017
IceBridge Survey Flight Over Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Fjord
This image of Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Fjord with Kap Atholl in the background was taken during an Operation...
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