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NASA | Tohoku Tsunami Creates Antarctic Icebergs
Nearly 50 square miles of ice broke off the Sulzberger Ice Shelf on the coast of Antarctica, resulting from waves generated by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice Update, Aug. 2013
An interview with NASA cryospheric scientist Dr. Tom Wagner, on the state of this summer's Arctic sea ice.
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Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2019 Minimum Extent
Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2019 minimum extent of 1.60 million square miles (4.15 million square kilometers) on Sept. 18, tied for second lowest summertime extent in the satellite record, according to NASA and the National Snow...
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NASA | Sea Ice Max 2013: An Interesting Year for Arctic Sea Ice
After a record melt season, an Arctic cyclone, and a fascinating fracturing event, Arctic sea ice has reached its maximum extent for the year.
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LIVE: NASA Flying Parallel Science Campaigns at Both Poles
For the first time in its seven years of flights, NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of changes in Earth’s polar ice, is conducting overlapping campaigns in Antarctica and the Arctic. Joining us are: Nathan Kurtz, IceBridge...
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NASA | Earth's Climate Checkup: Operation IceBridge Monitors Arctic
NASA scientists have just begun the most recent leg of the Operation IceBridge Mission, an unprecedented six-year mission to study the Earth's polar regions, not through the lens of a satellite, but from onboard an airplane. In fact,...
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice Live Shot 2014
Dr. Tom Wagner talks about Arctic sea ice and the ARISE mission in this canned liveshot interview.
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2015 Minimum Extent
On September 11, Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent for 2015. At 1.70 million square miles (4.41 million square kilometers), it’s the fourth lowest extent on record.
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Architect’s floating igloos would protect penguins and cool sea ice
An Iranian architect has shared a design that aims to protect penguins and control the melting of polar ice in Antarctica.
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NASA | Arctic Melt Season Lengthening, Ocean Rapidly Warming
The length of the melt season for Arctic sea ice is growing by several days each decade, and an earlier start to the melt season is allowing the Arctic Ocean to absorb enough additional solar radiation in some places to melt as much as...
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NASA | A Selective History of Sea Ice Observations, Part 1
Arctic sea ice has been been the last frontier of the North for thousands of years, turning back seafarers, testing the mettle of explorers, and providing a way of life for people circling the top of the world. This animated timeline...
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Two New Satellites Set to Study One of Earth's Most Critically Changing Regions
In 2018, NASA will intensify its focus on one of the most critical but remote parts of our changing planet with the launch of two new satellite missions and an array of airborne campaigns. GRACE-FO and ICESat-2 will use radically...
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OIB: Across the Ross
During their last Antarctic campaign, NASA's Operation IceBridge completed the first-ever basin-wide airborne survey of ice in the Ross Sea. This survey, known as the Ross Sea Fluxgate mission, aimed to help researchers track the...
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Ice Core Secrets Could Reveal Answers to Global Warming - Science Nation
At the Stable Isotope Lab in Boulder, Colo., scientists are doing a lot of the same things that those CSI folks do on TV. But instead of being "crime scene investigators," these experts are more like "cold scene investigators."...
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NASA's Operation IceBridge Completes 11 Years of Polar Surveys
For 11 years from 2009 to 2019, the planes of NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew above the Arctic, Antarctic and Alaska, gathering data on the height, depth, thickness, flow and change of sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. As the team and...
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NASA Operation IceBridge Hangout from Punta Arenas, Chile
Learn how NASA uses lasers to keep tabs on Antarctic glaciers and sea ice with a series of manned airplane flights over the most remote continent on Earth. U.S. Ambassador to Chile Michael Hammer and NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan...
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NASA | From the Cockpit: Arctic Sea Ice with Commentary
You've seen the great cockpit footage from Best of IceBridge Arctic '13, now go behind the scenes for 9 minutes of scientific commentary with Operation IceBridge Project Scientist Michael Studinger and NASA sea ice researcher Nathan...
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice Sets New Record Winter Low
Arctic sea ice has reached its peak winter extent for the year, and it’s the lowest winter maximum on record.
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2014 Minimum Extent
Sea ice acts as an air conditioner for the planet, reflecting energy from the sun. On September 17, the Arctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for 2014. At 1.94 million square miles (5.02 million square kilometers), it’s the sixth...
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NASA | A Laser Scientist Answers 5 Questions About LVIS
With winter closing in, a new NASA airborne campaign launched October 31, 2013 in Greenland. For the first time, the Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor, or LVIS, is flying about NASA's new C-130 aircraft to measure the island's ice...
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IceBridge Flies 300 Hours of Antarctic Science Flights
Flying low over the Earth’s southernmost continent, Operation IceBridge is wrapping up its eighth consecutive field season of mapping the ice sheet and glaciers of Antarctica, as well as the surrounding sea ice. With more than 300 hours...
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Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2021 Minimum Extent
Arctic sea ice reached its minimum extent on Sept. 16, 2021, at 4.72 million square kilometers (1.82 million square miles). Music: “Celestial Vault” from Universal Production Music Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center...
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Older Arctic Sea Ice Disappearing
Arctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area in recent years, it’s becoming younger and thinner as well. In this animation, where the ice cover almost looks gelatinous as it pulses through the seasons, cryospheric scientist...
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NASA Sees High Temperatures, Wildfires, Sea Ice Minimum Extent in Warming Arctic
On Sept. 15, 2020, Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent -- the second-lowest on record. This summer, temperatures soared in the Siberian Arctic, and intense fires burned through peatland. The Arctic region is warming three...