Earth's Climate Gets a Checkup: Operation IceBridge Takes to the Skies to Monitor Changing Arctic
Released on March 30, 2011
NASA scientists have just begun the most recent leg of the Operation IceBridge Mission, an unprecedented six-year mission to study the Earth's polar regions, not through the lens of a satellite, but from onboard an airplane. In fact, IceBridge is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown.