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NASA's P-3B aircraft flies over a melange of floating ice where two glaciers meet in eastern Greenland, on Apr. 14, 2012.

 

Credit: NASA/Jefferson Beck

 

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IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission, is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown. It will yield an unprecedented three-dimensional view of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves and sea ice. These flights will provide a yearly, multi-instrument look at the behavior of the rapidly changing features of the Greenland and Antarctic ice.

 

To read more about this mission go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/index.html

 

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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.

 

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Uploaded on April 24, 2012
Taken on April 14, 2012