IceBridge flight over Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Fjord
This image taken by IceBridge survey flight over Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Fjord with Kap Atholl in the background, in April, 2013. Sea ice coverage in the fjord ranges from thicker, white ice seen in the background, to thinner grease ice and leads showing open ocean water in the foreground. Image © NASA / Michael Studinger
IceBridge Flight over Baffin Island
A flight over the stunning landscape of eastern Greenland‘s Geikie Peninsula and a survey of a Canadian ice cap. IceBridge closed out the fourth week of its Arctic campaign. Soon the mission will return to Thule to finish up Arctic flights for 2013. The image captures ice-covered fjord on Baffin Island with Davis Strait in the background. Image © NASA/Michael Studinger
Flying Low over Southeast Greenland
In this video you will see Greenland’s glaciers from 500 meters above the ice, from the cockpit of a NASA’s Operation IceBridge P-3B airborne laboratory low over the Arctic.
IceBridge mission- P-3B starts the day
IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission, is the largest airborne survey of Earth’s polar ice ever flown. It will yield an unprecedented 3D view of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves and sea ice. Image © NASA/Goddard/Michael Studinger
Clearest evidence yet of Polar Ice losses
An international team of experts brought together by ESA and NASA has produced the most accurate assessment, with the clearest evidence yet of Polar ice losses, from Antarctica and Greenland. Image credit: Ian Joughin, University of Washington
Antarctic Coastal mountains
View of the northern Antarctic Peninsula’s Coastal mountains from high altitude during IceBridge‘s flight back from the Foundation Ice Stream, on Oct. 28, 2012. Image credit: NASA / Maria-Jose Vinas
Penguin Beach
A Penguin Beach. Members of the IceBridge team visited a colony of Magellanic penguins near Punta Arenas, Chile‘s southernmost region, on a no-flight day. Image credit: NASA/ Maria-Jose Vinas
Antarctica’s Tallest Peak
The Antarctica’s tallest peak from NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory passes, Mount Vinson, on Oct. 22, 2012, during a flight over the continent to measure changes in the massive ice sheet and sea ice. Image credit: NASA/Michael Studinger
Greenland in White, Brown and Blue
In the image you can see a meltwater pond nestled amid the rock-and-ice covered fringe of Greenland. Most of the surface of Greenland is covered with fresh water—about 2.6 million cubic kilometers of it. Yet that water is frozen, locked up in ice and snow. NASA Photograph by Jim Yungel, NASA Wallops Flight Facility
Flying through a crack in an iceberg
In October 2011, researchers flying in NASA’s Operation IceBridge campaign made the first-ever detailed, airborne measurements of a major iceberg calving event in Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier, while it was in progress. Four months later, the IceBridge team has mapped the crack in a way that allows glaciologists and the rest of us to fly through the icy canyon.
