Weddellhavet

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Shiny red button/marker widget. Used to mark the location of something such as a tourist attraction.

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Författare/Upphovsman: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, Licens: CC BY 2.0

Small tabular icebergs, in the marginal ice zone, northern Weddell Sea, as seen during an Operation IceBridge flight on Nov. 22, 2017. (NASA/John Sonntag)

The 2017 field season was record-breaking for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s aerial survey of the state of polar ice. For the first time in its nine-year history, the mission, which aims to close the gap between two NASA satellite campaigns that study changes in the height of polar ice, carried out seven field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctic in a single year. In total, the IceBridge scientists and instruments flew over 214,000 miles, the equivalent of orbiting the Earth 8.6 times at the equator.

The mission of Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice, is to collect data on changing polar land and sea ice and maintain continuity of measurements between ICESat missions. The original ICESat mission launched in 2003 and ended in 2009, and its successor, ICESat-2, is scheduled for launch in the fall of 2018. Operation IceBridge began in 2009 and is currently funded until 2020. The planned overlap with ICESat-2 will help scientists connect with the satellite’s measurements.

Read more: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/big-year-for-icebridge" rel="nofollow">www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/big-year-for-icebridge</a>

For more about Operation IceBridge and to follow future campaigns, visit: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/icebridge" rel="nofollow">www.nasa.gov/icebridge</a>

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Författare/Upphovsman: Alexrk2, Licens: CC BY-SA 3.0
Physical Location map Antarctica, Azimuthal equidistant projection

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Antarctica. An orthographic projection of NASA's Blue Marble data set (1 km resolution global satellite composite). "MODIS observations of polar sea ice were combined with observations of Antarctica made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s AVHRR sensor—the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer." Image was generated using a custom C program for handling the Blue Marble files, with orthographic projection formulas from MathWorld.
Note: this image has been manually modified to fill in an area of black pixels in the ocean, in the upper right quadrant. The black pixels are presumed to be due to missing data in the land/sea mask used in making the original Blue Marble image.