NASA Begins Latest Airborne Arctic Ice Survey

NASA completed the first IceBridge flight of its spring Arctic campaign with a survey of  sea ice north of Greenland. This year marks the tenth Arctic spring campaign for IceBridge. The flights continue until April 27 extending the mission’s decade-long mapping of the fastest-changing areas of the Greenland Ice Sheet and measuring sea ice thickness across the western Arctic basin.

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Snow-covered pack sea ice north of Greenland. Credits: NASA/Jeremy Harbeck
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