Sentences with phrase «flown over the ice sheet»
However, ice - penetrating radar scanners, flown over the ice sheet by aircraft, can reveal the shape of the ground.
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Now, ice - penetrating radar scanners, flown over the sheet by aircraft, can reveal the shape of the ground.
Traveling by helicopter from the main American base of McMurdo Station on Ross Island to the Dry Valleys, researchers fly over a portion of the Ross Ice Shelf and then a corner of the mesmerizing white spread of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is the largest in the world.
On a clear day, anyone flying over Greenland on the route between North America and Europe can look down and see the bright blue patches of melted water atop the flat, blindingly white expanse of the ice sheet that covers the island, the second largest chunk of ice on Earth.
When scientists with NASA's Operation IceBridge mission fly over the Earth's poles gathering ice sheet data, they can focus solely on their science and not the computing systems that make it possible, thanks to Indiana University IT experts.