NASA's IceBridge 2012 Arctic campaign takes to the skies
Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 17:00
in Astronomy & Space
Researchers and flight crew with NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in polar ice, began another season of science activity with the start of the 2012 Arctic campaign on March 13. From mid-March through mid-May, a modified P-3 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., will conduct daily missions out of Thule and Kangerlussuaq, Greenland with one flight to Fairbanks, Alaska and backto measure sea and land ice. The campaign will also feature instrument tests, continued international collaboration and educational activities.