How IceBridge flights avoid disturbing penguins

This short NASA feature describes how Operation IceBridge planners account for penguin habitats when arranging Antarctic research flights. It is the penguin segment on the 2014 campaign source page, not the separate sea-ice-growth feature hosted on that page.

NASA's illustrative film poster composites a penguin with a research aircraft on an airport apron; not a field photograph of a penguin beside the aircraft.
Official composite poster · not a field encounter

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; producer Michael Starobin (HTSI). Official illustrative film poster.

NASA educational/editorial media guidance; source credits retained. Official poster is a composite illustration, not an authenticated wildlife encounter. No separate third-party music restriction observed on the source page.

What this does not establish

Historical operational explanation, not current flight guidance or a claim that aircraft never disturb wildlife. The source page release date is used; it does not establish the shooting date of every scene.

Original sources

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