Earth ID: 11939

NASA On Air: NASA's Operation IceBridge Mission Flights Show The Stark Beauty Of Greenland's Snow And Ice (6/30/2015)

Released on June 30, 2015

LEAD: NASA scientists flew 33 eight-hour flights this spring (2015) to measure how Greenland and the Arctic are responding to climate change.

1. Greenland is huge: essentially an ice cube 1,500 miles long, 400 miles wide, and a mile and a half thick.

2. 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

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/operation-icebridge-concludes-2015-arctic-campaign

Credits

Howard Joe Witte (ADNET):
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Nasreen Alkhateeb (AIMM):
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Jefferson Beck (USRA):
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Sophia Roberts (USRA):
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G2015-057 -- NASA's Icebridge flights show stark beauty of Greenland snow and ice

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