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The Kuiper Melt
Impact Melt at Necho Crater
Fragmented Impact Melt
Mounds in a Melt Pond
I Melt With You
Impact Melt on Klute W Wall
On June 15, 2016, the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite acquired a natural-color...
Sea level rise is a natural consequence of the warming of our planet. We know this from basic physics. When water...
Impact crater floors are commonly flat and relatively smooth, the result of the cooling and solidification of impact...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is heading to the Sun. Why won't the spacecraft melt? Thermal engineer Betsy Congdon...
Rates of basal melt of Antarctic ice shelves melting of the shelves from underneath overlaid on a 2009 mosaic of...
This summer, with sea ice across the Arctic Ocean shrinking to below-average levels, a NASA airborne survey of polar...
Date acquired: April 05, 2013 This striking image of Kuiper shows the crater in a new perspective. This image...
On July 10, 2011, Don Perovich, of Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, maneuvered through melt ponds...
NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter looks near the northeast edge of the unusually large melt pond adjacent to the...
Frozen impact melt flows on the ejecta blanket of the young impact crater Giordano Bruno in this image from NASA...
The SeaWinds instrument on NASA Quick Scatterometer QuikScat spacecraft captured these near-real-time backscatter...
Images from NASA/USGS Landsat satellites show the snowcover in Wyoming's Fremont Lake Basin throughout 2013. NASA...
On July 6, 2011, Don Perovich, of Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, used a spectroradiometer to...
On July 19, 2011, Zachary Brown of Stanford University sipped freshwater from a melt pond on sea ice in the Arctic...
GALORE Testing - Regolith Melt Testing
This image shows a region of the sea floor off the coast of northwest Greenland mapped as part of NASA Oceans...
ARCSIX is the Arctic Radiation Cloud Aerosol Surface Interaction Experiment. The overarching goal of ARCSIX is to...
How can Greenland's ice sheets still be more than 10,000 feet thick, if carbon dioxide is warming the planet? This...