Flying through the Rift: An update on the crack in the P.I.G.
NASA's DC-8 flew over the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf on Oct. 14, 2011, as part of Operation IceBridge. A large, long-running crack was plainly visible across the ice shelf. The DC-8 took off on Oct. 26, 2011, to collect more data on the ice shelf and the crack. The area beyond the crack that could calve in the coming months covers about 310 square miles (800 sq. km).
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The 3D flythough of the rift in the Pine Island Glacier on Oct. 26, 2011, created entirely through photogrammetric processing.of Digital Mapping System imagery taken from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during an Operation IceBridge field campaign.
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producers
- Jefferson Beck (USRA)
- Rachel Kreutzinger (USRA)
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Scientists
- Michael Studinger (UMD)
- Bob Bindschadler (NASA/GSFC)
- Kelly Brunt (Morgan State University)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, March 6, 2012.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:18 AM EST.
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[Landsat-7: ETM+]
ID: 55This dataset can be found at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html
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LIMA (Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica) [Landsat-7: ETM+]
ID: 599Mosaicing to avoid clouds produced a high quality, nearly cloud-free benchmark data set of Antarctica for the International Polar Year from images collected primarily during 1999-2003.
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DMS Photogrammetry [Digital Mapping System]
ID: 729
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