• View of polar ice in the Arctic Ocean.
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    A NASA mission, IceBridge is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice. Since 2009, these flights have provided a three-dimensional look at the rapidly changing Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves, and sea ice. 

    On March 19, 2015, IceBridge started its seventh Arctic campaign. The first part of the campaign studied the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland and in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas north of Alaska. The second part of the campaign was spent surveying ice surface elevation and thickness at several rapidly changing areas on the Greenland ice sheet. The campaign ended on May 22. 

    During the seventh Arctic campaign, IceBridge researchers captured this view over the Greenland ice sheet.

  • View of polar ice in the Arctic Ocean.

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