Sentences with phrase «flights over sea ice»
Starting next week, NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, will be carrying science flights over sea ice in the Arctic, to help validate satellite readings and provide insight into the impact of the summer melt season on land and sea ice.
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NASA is carrying out its sixth consecutive year of Operation IceBridge research flights over Antarctica to study changes in the continent's ice sheet, glaciers and sea ice.
During a flight over the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, the DC - 8 banks over the Amundsen Sea and the clean edge of the ice shelf front.
Reuters photo caption: «Broken Arctic sea ice as seen from a window in from a U.S. Coast Guard C130 flight over the Arctic Ocean September 30, 2009.»