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NASA completes survey flights to map Arctic ice
Description: Operation IceBridge, NASA's longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice change, concluded this year's springtime survey of Arctic sea and land ice on May 2. The flights, which began on March 22, covered the western basin of the Arctic Ocean and Greenland's fastest-changing glaciers. Many of these missions ten years in a row, a period that has included continued rapid change in both Arctic glaciers and sea ice. This was the last IceBridge campaign to occur before the expected launch of ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2). [Source: NASA Climate Change News]
URL: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2732/nasa-completes-survey-flights-to-map-arctic-ice/
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Source: NASA Climate Change News
Publish Date: 5/15/2018
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