NASA’s P-3B airborne science aircraft based at the Wallops Flight Facility departed at 6:30 a.m. EDT yesterday morning, March 11, for an 11-week study of ice coverage in Greenland the Arctic Ocean above Canada and Alaska.
NASA’s P-3B airborne science aircraft based at the Wallops Flight Facility departed at 6:30 a.m. EDT yesterday morning, March 11, for an 11-week study of ice coverage in Greenland the Arctic Ocean above Canada and Alaska. They will fly out of Greenland, through May 23, with a week-long temporary deployment to Fairbanks, Alaska, early in the campaign. IceBridge is an airborne science mission aimed at gathering data on changing polar ice and maintaining continuity of measurements between NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, or ICESat, and its successor, ICESat-2. By flying yearly campaigns, IceBridge is able to monitor key rapidly-changing areas of polar land and sea ice. (NASA/P. Black)