NASA On Air: NASA's Operation IceBridge Mission Flights Show The Stark Beauty Of Greenland's Snow And Ice (6/30/2015)
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- Nasreen Alkhateeb
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- Nasreen Alkhateeb
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- Howard Joe Witte,
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- Nasreen Alkhateeb
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- Nasreen Alkhateeb
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LEAD: NASA scientists flew 33 eight-hour flights this spring (2015) to measure how Greenland and the Arctic are responding to climate change.
Greenland is huge: essentially an ice cube 1,500 miles long, 400 miles wide, and a mile and a half thick.
Instruments aboard the research plane measured where Greenland ice is growing in winter and where it is melting during the summer.
TAG: Data indicates that overall, Greenland is losing ice, and its melt water is adding to the long-term sea level rise around the world.
For More Information
See http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/operation-icebridge-concludes-2015-arctic-campaign
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Editor
- Nasreen Alkhateeb (AIMM) [Lead]
Video editor
- Sophia Roberts (AIMM)
Director
- Nasreen Alkhateeb (AIMM) [Lead]
Producers
- Howard Joe Witte (ADNET) [Lead]
- Jefferson Beck (KBRwyle) [Lead]
- Nasreen Alkhateeb (AIMM) [Lead]
Cinematographer
- Nasreen Alkhateeb (AIMM) [Lead]
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