This spectacular view of a large glacier in British Columbia, Canada, was captured from NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory during one of the ASCENDS II atmospheric sampling instrument validation flights.
Mission: Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons (ASCENDS II)
This spectacular view of a large glacier in British Columbia, Canada, was captured from NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory during one of the ASCENDS II atmospheric sampling instrument validation flights. Note ice floes in the water under the engine nacelle that had broken off from the glacier’s face.July 2011
NSERC / Emily Schaller