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Goddard TV Video Tape: G2015-057 -- NASA's Icebridge flights show stark beauty of Greenland snow and ice

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