NASA Operation IceBridge Antarctica in Punta Arenas, Chile
After participating in NASA’s Operation IceBridge (OIB) Greenland earlier this year, I was reunited with the OIB team, this time in the other end of the globe: Punta Arenas, in the extreme south of Chile. Subsequent to being in a plane for 13 hours, courtesy of LAN Chile, I landed in the southern hemisphere for [...]
NASA Operation IceBridge Returns to Antarctica
Source: NASA Earth Observatory satellite image acquired October 5, 2011 download large image (5 MB, JPEG) download GeoTIFF file (42 MB, TIFF) For the third consecutive October, NASA research aircraft are flying over Antarctica in search of clues about the health and dynamics of the frozen continent’s massive ice sheets and shelves. Part of the NASA-funded IceBridge mission, planes carry instruments to [...]
Planning for Operation IceBridge’s Antarctic Mission
After having been to northern Greenland (Thule Air Base) for the first time back in May (see Part I & Part II), there might be a chance that I’ll travel down to the southern tip of South America in November. The Antarctic part of NASAOperation IceBridge (OIB) is based at Punta Arenas, Chile, and involves science flights on the [...]
First Visit to North Greenland – II
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
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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