Earth's Climate Gets a Checkup: Operation IceBridge Takes to the Skies to Monitor Changing Arctic

  • Released Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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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.

Interview with Dr. Tom Wagner, cryospheric scientist at NASA.

For complete transcript, click here.

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See http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/multimedia/arcticseaice-max2011.html

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