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The Arctic and the Antarctic are regions that have a lot of ice and acts as air conditioners for the Earth system....
At a depth of 600 feet beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, a small shrimp-like creature managed to brighten up an...
Calving front of an ice shelf in West Antarctica. The traditional view on ice shelves, the floating extensions of...
At the southern end of the Earth, a NASA plane carrying a team of scientists and a sophisticated instrument suite to...
This map of Antarctica shows the changes in the elevation of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1985 through 2021. The map...
STS048-152-007 (12-18 Sept 1991) --- The periphery of the Antarctic ice shelf and the Antarctic Peninsula were...
Sea ice is seen out the window of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft as it flies 2,000 feet above the Bellingshausen Sea...
An iceberg is seen out the window of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft as it flies 2,000 feet above the Amundsen Sea in...
Rates of basal melt of Antarctic ice shelves melting of the shelves from underneath overlaid on a 2009 mosaic of...
On March 7, 2017, Arctic sea ice reached its annual wintertime maximum extent, according to scientists at the...
NASA scientists and ice sheet modelers, Ryan Walker and Christine Dow, traveled to a remote location on the coast of...
Operation IceBridge, a NASA airborne survey of changes in polar ice, recently completed its eighth consecutive...
Operation IceBridge, a NASA airborne survey of changes in polar ice, recently completed its eighth consecutive...
Operation IceBridge, a NASA airborne survey of changes in polar ice, recently completed its eighth consecutive...
Operation IceBridge, a NASA airborne survey of changes in polar ice, recently completed its eighth consecutive...
As summer temperatures heat up in the Northern Hemisphere, we look back at Operation IceBridge’s most recent...
Like the Antarctic ice sheet, the Greenland ice sheet is a dynamic polar region where the atmosphere, temperature...
A small hole in the clouds revealed newly formed sea ice in the Bellingshausen Sea next to an ice berg on Nov. 5,...
Mountain peaks through the ice cover on Thurston Island off of western Antarctica as seen on the IceBridge flight on...
The Thurston Island calving front off of western Antarctica as seen from the window of NASA's DC-8 on Nov. 5, 2014....
A sea of icebergs float near the Thurston Island calving front off of western Antarctica as seen on the IceBridge...
Snow is blown off of the Thurston Island calving front off of western Antarctica as seen on the IceBridge flight on...
NASA’s Operation IceBridge collected some rare images on a flight out of Punta Arenas, Chile on Nov. 5, 2014, on a...
Edge of an ice shelf in Adelaide Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: NASA / Maria-Jose Vinas NASA's...