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NASA image: The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign. AirSAR 2004 is...

NASA image: The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign. AirSAR 2004 is...

NASA image: The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign. AirSAR 2004 is...

NASA image: The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign. AirSAR 2004 is...

NASA image: The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign. AirSAR 2004 is...

NASA image: The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign. AirSAR 2004 is...

NASA image: Icebergs in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Icebergs in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Two large icebergs, designated B-15A and C-16, captured by NASA Terra satellite, are of the Ross Ice Shelf and Ross...

NASA image: QuikScat Captures an Early Melt

QuikScat Captures an Early Melt

The SeaWinds instrument on NASA Quick Scatterometer QuikScat spacecraft captured these near-real-time backscatter...

NASA image: Breakup of the World Largest Iceberg

Breakup of the World Largest Iceberg

NASA Terra spacecraft imaged Iceberg B-15A, the largest iceberg in the world measuring about 11,000 square...

NASA image: Byrd Glacier, Antarctica

Byrd Glacier, Antarctica

Byrd Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica; it drains an extensive area of the polar plateau and flows eastward...

NASA image: Earth - Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Earth - Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

This color picture of Antarctica is one part of a mosaic of pictures covering the entire Antarctic continent taken...

NASA image: NASA finds Shrimp Under Antarctic Ice [Video]

NASA finds Shrimp Under Antarctic Ice [Video]

At a depth of 600 feet beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, a small shrimp-like creature managed to brighten up an...

NASA image: Mackenzie Bay, Antarctica

Mackenzie Bay, Antarctica

Off the northeastern edge of Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf lies Mackenzie Bay, which was painted with a ghostly...

NASA image: Bellingshausen Sea

Bellingshausen Sea

A small hole in the clouds revealed newly formed sea ice in the Bellingshausen Sea next to an ice berg on Nov. 5,...

NASA image: Mountain Peaks

Mountain Peaks

Mountain peaks through the ice cover on Thurston Island off of western Antarctica as seen on the IceBridge flight on...

NASA image: Thurston Island

Thurston Island

The Thurston Island calving front off of western Antarctica as seen from the window of NASA's DC-8 on Nov. 5, 2014....

NASA image: Thurston Island Calving

Thurston Island Calving

A sea of icebergs float near the Thurston Island calving front off of western Antarctica as seen on the IceBridge...

NASA image: Thurston Island

Thurston Island

Snow is blown off of the Thurston Island calving front off of western Antarctica as seen on the IceBridge flight on...

NASA image: 2014_11_05_uss_constellation

2014_11_05_uss_constellation

NASA’s Operation IceBridge collected some rare images on a flight out of Punta Arenas, Chile on Nov. 5, 2014, on a...

NASA image: Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica

Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica

Sometime between July 10 and July 12, an iceberg about the size of Delaware split off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice...

NASA image: Icebergs Adrift in the Amundsen Sea

Icebergs Adrift in the Amundsen Sea

The Thwaites Ice Tongue is a large sheet of glacial ice extending from the West Antarctic mainland into the southern...

NASA image: Amundsen Sea

Amundsen Sea

During a flight over the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, the DC-8 banks over the Amundsen Sea and the clean edge of...

NASA image: The Antarctic Ice Sheet's Changing Height

The Antarctic Ice Sheet's Changing Height

This map of Antarctica shows the changes in the elevation of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1985 through 2021. The map...

NASA image: Balloons on Ice: Launch # 2 takes flight in Antarctica

Balloons on Ice: Launch # 2 takes flight in Antarctica

The second of three missions as part of NASA’s Antarctica Long Duration Balloon Flight Campaign was successfully...