Scratching out a Living on Ellesmere Island
The Oobloyah Valley on Ellesmere Island would probably not be the best place for a plant to set down roots.
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Our beautiful Planet from above
These amazing images may look like from another world, but they’ re actually from our beautiful planet via the European Space Agency’s Observing the Earth.
Glacial Meltdown
Glaciers are supposed to advance or retreat at a glacial pace. Now they’re disappearing before our eyes. Ilulissat Ice Fjord, Greenland, 2008. Solid turns
Amazing Aerial Tour of the Arctic
IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission, is the largest airborne survey of Earth’s polar ice ever flown. It will yield an unprecedented three-dimensional view of Arctic
A Swirl of Clouds over the Pacific
This natural-color image of cloud vortices behind Isla Socorro, a volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on
Osprey refuels
A USAF Bell Boeing CV-22 Osprey refueling from a Lockheed Martin MC-130H Combat Talon II off the coast of Greenland on its way to RAF
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
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
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
Submarine Vehicle Probes Beneath an Ice Sheet
For the exploration of our planet and of others, researchers sent a probe under the Antarctic ice in January 2013. For nearly a decade, engineers
