Operation IceBridge - Alaskan Operations

  • Released Monday, December 9, 2019
  • ID: 13490

In Alaska, 5 percent of the land is covered by glaciers that are losing a lot of ice and contributing to sea level rise. To monitor these changes, a small team of NASA-funded researchers has been flying scientific instruments on a bright red, single-engine plane since spring 2009.

While scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center managed the two larger yearly field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctica, monitoring Alaskan glaciers fell on a smaller team based at the University of Fairbanks, Alaska.

For More Information

See https://icebridge.gsfc.nasa.gov



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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center


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