NASA On Air: Melt Ponds—Mother Nature’s Artwork (8/7/2014)
LEAD: NASA is exploring the climate effects of Mother Nature’s artwork in the Arctic.
- This Alaskan glacier melt pond is the size of 3 football fields.
- The Caribbean-like turquoise blue color comes from the ice below.
- Similar melt ponds on the Arctic sea ice grow during the summer since the blue water absorbs sunshine.
- Ponds can cover nearly half of Arctic ice.
TAG: NASA’s specially instrumented U-2, flying at 65,000 feet, is measuring this summer how these melt ponds effect the warming processes
of the Arctic.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Howard Joe Witte (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Video editor
- Joy Ng (USRA)
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Project support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, August 7, 2014.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:50 PM EDT.