Operation IceBridge Flight Lines 2009-2019
Operation Icebridge Flight Lines 2009-2019, Arctic
For ten years from 2009 to 2019, the planes of NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew above the Arctic and Antarctic, gathering data on the height, depth, thickness, flow and change of sea ice, glaciers, and ice sheets.
Designed to bridge the gap between NASA’s two Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellites, ICESat and ICESat-2, IceBridge made its final flight in November 2019, one year after ICESat-2’s successful launch. The fleet of aircraft carried more than a dozen instruments, from ice-penetrating radar and elevation-mapping lasers to optical and infrared cameras.
This visualization shows the flight lines of each yearly campaign from 2009 to 2019, created from navigational data obtained from the flights.
Operation Icebridge Flight Lines 2009-2019, Antarctica
Operation Icebridge Flight Lines 2009-2019, Arctic, No Labels
Operation Icebridge Flight Lines 2009-2019, Antarctica, No Labels
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Visualizer
- Trent L. Schindler (USRA)
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Technical support
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Producers
- LK Ward (USRA)
- Katie Jepson (USRA)
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Writer
- Jessica Merzdorf (Telophase)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, December 12, 2019.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 12:14 AM EST.
Datasets used in this visualization
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BMNG (Blue Marble: Next Generation) [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 508Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
This dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
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Navigational Data [IceBridge]
ID: 1064
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