Greenland: Airplane Animation Revealing Ice Change

  • Released Thursday, March 4, 1999
  • Updated Friday, May 22, 2015 at 5:03PM
  • ID: 580
This animation is match-moved to animation #581.

Animation of an airplane collecting ice thickness data over Greenland with the Airborne Topographic Mapper

Airplane collecting ice thickness data over Greenland

Airplane collecting ice thickness data over Greenland

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 1)Plane flies over Greenland revealing changes in elevation data taken from onboard Laser Altimeter. Airplane's motion path should be identical to previous Beach Mapping and Mars Laser Altimeter motion paths, thereby allowing a smooth dissolve between this and the other two animations".

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 1)
Plane flies over Greenland revealing changes in elevation data taken from onboard Laser Altimeter. Airplane's motion path should be identical to previous Beach Mapping and Mars Laser Altimeter motion paths, thereby allowing a smooth dissolve between this and the other two animations".

For More Information

See http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/greenland/index.html

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Papers

This visualization is based on the following papers:
  • W. Krabill, E. Frederick, S. Manizade, C. Martin, J. Sonntag, R. Swift, R. Thomas, W. Wright, and J. Yungel, Rapid Thinning of Parts of the Southern Greenland Ice Sheet, Science, 283, n5407, pp 1522-1524, March 5, 1999

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(Collected with the Airborne Topographic Mapper sensor)
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