DC-8 over Weddell Sea
Mission: Operation IceBridge 2012
This dramatic photo of sea ice was captured from NASA’s DC-8 flying science laboratory during a low-level flyover of the Weddell Sea off Antarctica as it underflew the CryoSat-2 satellite on the final science flight in the 2012 Operation IceBridge Antarctic mission.November 7, 2012
NASA / Michael Studinger