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First Visit to North Greenland – II
On May 15, 2011
Our science mission on Monday, May 9th involved flights over the north and northwest of Greenland, specifically the Steensby, Ryder and Hagen glaciers as well as the Fald Ice Cap in Kronprins Christian Land. The Steensby Glacier passes through the Sherard Osbron Fjord, while the Ryder Glacier is constrained by the Victoria Fjord. This was my [...]
First Visit to North Greenland – I
On April 28, 2011
After a five-hour flight from Baltimore Washington International Airport, I landed at the Thule Air Base in northwestern Greenland as part of Columbia University’s team in NASA’s Operation IceBridge (OIB). The program is a six-year campaign of annual flights to each of Earth’s polar regions that began in the Fall of 2009. The flights in March and [...]
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