Mapping Polar Ice

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center · 2013-03-19

NASA describes 2012 airborne surveys near the Getz Ice Shelf grounding line to study ice loss and the underlying bedrock. The film presents the mission’s research context at publication, not a current assessment of the shelf.

NASA source poster showing an aircraft view of snow-covered Antarctic mountains.
NASA source poster showing an aircraft view of snow-covered Antarctic mountains. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. No NASA endorsement implied.

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