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The sea ice cap of the Arctic appeared to reach its annual maximum winter extent on February 25, according to data...
ARCSIX is the Arctic Radiation Cloud Aerosol Surface Interaction Experiment. The overarching goal of ARCSIX is to...
NASA’s Operation IceBridge has wrapped up its 2015 Arctic field campaign after covering a vast expanse of science...
Image acquired October 30, 2012 Scientists watched the Arctic with particular interest in the summer of 2012, when...
For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge, a NASA mission that conducts aerial surveys of polar ice, has...
Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas, has been...
Working from a combination of satellite records and declassified submarine sonar data, NASA scientists have...
High above Alaska and Canada, researchers from NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) are studying...
The Arctic sea ice pack is nearing its annual minimum extent, which is projected to be one of the lowest since...
This frame from a NASA MODIS animation depicts warming sea surface temperatures in the Arctic Beaufort Sea after...
This video features both the rugged scenery of Greenland and the somewhat rugged interior of a NASA C-130, the...
The sea ice cap of the Arctic appeared to reach its annual maximum winter extent on Feb. 25, according to data from...
The Arctic Boreal and Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) covers 2.5 million square miles of tundra, forests,...
Beaufort Sea surface temperatures where Canada Mackenzie River discharges into the Arctic Ocean, measured by NASA...
This image from the Microwave Limb Sounder instrument on NASA Aura spacecraft depicts the relationship between...
These views of the Russian Arctic were acquired by NASA Terra spacecraft on July 11, 2004, when the brief arctic...
This still from an animation created from data from the Microwave Limb Sounder instrument on NASA Aura spacecraft...
A prototype of an autonomous robot, part of a project called IceNode being developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion...
These data maps from the Microwave Limb Sounder on NASA Aura spacecraft depict levels of hydrogen chloride, chlorine...
Scientists and crew with NASA’s Operation IceBridge, which makes annual aerial surveys of polar ice, are wrapping up...
On July 18, 2011, Melinda Webster of University of Washington, calculated distances between sampling locations...
On July 19, 2011, Zachary Brown of Stanford University sipped freshwater from a melt pond on sea ice in the Arctic...
This artist conception depicts NASA Phoenix Mars Lander a moment before its touchdown on the arctic plains of Mars.
This year marks the tenth Arctic spring campaign for Operation IceBridge, a cryosphere-focused mission tasked with...