A Veterans’ Day photo from Operation IceBridge
Image captured November 4, 2010
This photograph of the NASA DC-8 contrail was taken from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station on November 4, 2010. It was the first time the DC-8 had ever flown over the South Pole. The aircraft was carrying NASA’s Operation IceBridge crew and science instruments on an arc around the pole, collecting laser altimetry data to improve calibration of the dataset collected by NASA’s ICESat satellite.
You can read a blog about Operation IceBridge here: blogs.nasa.gov/cm/newui/blog/viewpostlist.jsp?blogname=ic...
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
Credit: David Pablo Cohn, South Pole IT Helpdesk
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A Veterans’ Day photo from Operation IceBridge
Image captured November 4, 2010
This photograph of the NASA DC-8 contrail was taken from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station on November 4, 2010. It was the first time the DC-8 had ever flown over the South Pole. The aircraft was carrying NASA’s Operation IceBridge crew and science instruments on an arc around the pole, collecting laser altimetry data to improve calibration of the dataset collected by NASA’s ICESat satellite.
You can read a blog about Operation IceBridge here: blogs.nasa.gov/cm/newui/blog/viewpostlist.jsp?blogname=ic...
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
Credit: David Pablo Cohn, South Pole IT Helpdesk
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