Operation IceBridge - Antarctic Transits

  • Released Monday, December 9, 2019
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NASA is carrying out its sixth consecutive year of Operation IceBridge research flights over Antarctica in 2014 to study changes in the continent’s ice sheet, glaciers and sea ice.

For several weeks, researchers flew aboard NASA’s DC-8 research aircraft out of Punta Arenas, Chile.

2014 produced video on Antarctic transit.

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This page was originally published on Monday, December 9, 2019.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:45 PM EDT.

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