NASA's Operation IceBridge closed out its 2012 Antarctic season with two surveys of Antarctic glaciers and two long-awaited flights over sea ice in the Weddell Sea.
U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Alejandro Wolff, and his Secretary for Economic Affairs, Josanda Jinnette, flew onboard the NASA DC-8 over Antarctica on October 25, 2012
Scientists and flight crew members with NASA's airborne mission to study Earth's polar ice are beginning another Antarctic campaign.
0700: Power ON
0730: Weather Brief
0800: Pre-flight brief (ALL flyers must be present)
0830: Doors close
0900: Take off
Mission: Thwaites-Smith-Kohler-8
