Operation IceBridge Greenland Spring 2010 Flight Paths

  • Released Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Operation Ice Bridge is a six-year campaign of annual flights to each of Earth's polar regions. The first flights in March and April carried researchers over Greenland and the Arctic Ocean. This spring's Artic campaign, led by principal investigator Seelye Martin of the University of Washington, will begin the first sustained airborne research effort of its kind over the continent. Data collected by researchers will help scientists bridge the gap between NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) — which is operating the last of its three lasers — and ICESat-II, scheduled to launch in 2014.

The Ice Bridge flights will help scientists maintain the record of changes to sea ice and ice sheets that have been collected since 2003 by ICESat. The flights will lack the continent-wide coverage that can be achieved by satellite, so researchers carefully select key target locations. But the flights will also turn up new information not possible from orbit, such as the shape of the terrain below the ice.

Thirteen flights are scheduled and displayed in this visualization.

Flight Paths for Operation Ice Bridge, Greenland Spring 2010

Flight Path aound the Peterman Glacier

Flight Path aound the Peterman Glacier

Flight Path from Thule Air Base to North East Greenland

Flight Path from Thule Air Base to North East Greenland

Second Flight Path from Thule Air Base to North East Greenland

Second Flight Path from Thule Air Base to North East Greenland

Sea Ice Flight Path 1

Sea Ice Flight Path 1

Sea Ice Flight Path 2

Sea Ice Flight Path 2

Sea Ice Flight Path 3

Sea Ice Flight Path 3

Sea Ice Flight Path 4

Sea Ice Flight Path 4

Sea Ice Flight Path 5

Sea Ice Flight Path 5

Sea Ice Flight Path 6

Sea Ice Flight Path 6

Sea Ice FLight Path 7

Sea Ice FLight Path 7

Sea Ice Flight Path 8

Sea Ice Flight Path 8

South East Flight Path

South East Flight Path

North West Flight Path

North West Flight Path

Operation ICe Bridge Greenland Spring 2010 Flight Paths for phase 1 and phase 2.

Flight Path 1 along the Jakobshavn Glacier

Flight Path 1 along the Jakobshavn Glacier

Flight Path 2 from Thule Air Base to the Jakobshavn Glacier

Flight Path 2 from Thule Air Base to the Jakobshavn Glacier

Third Flight Path from Thule to North East Greenland

Third Flight Path from Thule to North East Greenland

Fourth Flight Path from Thule Air Base to North East Greenland

Fourth Flight Path from Thule Air Base to North East Greenland

North West Coastal Flight Path 1

North West Coastal Flight Path 1

North West Coastal Flight Path 2

North West Coastal Flight Path 2

Russell Glacier

Russell Glacier

South East Coastal Flight Path

South East Coastal Flight Path

Flight Path along the South East Glaciers

Flight Path along the South East Glaciers

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This page was originally published on Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.

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