Earth  ID: 10751

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

For complete transcript, click here.

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

Credits

Tom Wagner (NASA): Interviewee
Jefferson Beck (UMBC): Producer
Tom Wagner (NASA): Scientist
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SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Polar Ice
SVS >> Sea Ice
SVS >> Climate Change
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