Antarctica
by Science Source
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Antarctica
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Science Source
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Photograph - Photograph
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View of the northern Antarctic Peninsula from high altitude during IceBridge's flight back from the Foundation Ice Stream. Operation IceBridge started in 2009 when NASA's Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) stopped collecting data. With ICESat-2, NASA's replacement for ICESat, still years away from launch, there was an urgent need to fill this observation gap at a time when ice in the Arctic and Antarctic was showing signs of dramatic change related to the warming environment. IceBridge started as a way to maintain a continuous data record between the two satellite missions. Since it began in 2009, IceBridge has been gathering detailed information on many aspects of polar ice to improve understanding of how the Arctic and Antarctic are changing and how these regions interact with the global climate system.
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July 15th, 2014
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