Flying Alaskan Glaciers
Flying low over some of the most dramatic landscapes on the planet, a cadre of scientists and pilots have been measuring changes in Alaskan glaciers as part of NASA’s Operation IceBridge for almost a decade. The team has seen significant change in ice extent and thickness over that time. Data from the mission was used in a 2015 study that put numbers on the loss of Alaskan glaciers: 75 billion tons of ice every year from 1994 to 2013. Last summer, Chris Larsen and Martin Truffer, both of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, flew with University of Arizona's Jack Holt and University of Texas student Michael Christoffersen.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Jefferson Beck (USRA)
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Writer
- Maria-Jose Vinas Garcia (Telophase)
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Scientists
- Chris Larsen (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
- Mark Fahnestock (University of Alaska)
- Martin Truffer (University of Alaska)
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Visualizer
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, March 29, 2019.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:46 PM EDT.