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Southern Antarctic Peninsula
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Published December 28, 2017
Approaching the icy continent by aircraft, the vast expanse of water and ice is suddenly broken by gray and brown rocky mountaintops
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A Birdseye View of Iceberg A-68A
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Published November 23, 2017
From an altitude of just over 1,000 feet, photographs from aircraft give an uncommon look at the massive Antarctic iceberg.
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Icy Fingers in the Weddell Sea
Published November 22, 2017
As a result of the collision, blocks of ice slide above and below each other in a pattern that resembles a zipper or interlocking fingers.
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Hidden Under New England’s Green Canopy
Published August 16, 2017
In Connecticut’s forests, lidar has helped uncover a bit of early U.S. history.
Sierra Snowpack Bigger Than Last Four Years Combined
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Published April 22, 2017
NASA airborne snow surveys provide key information for California water managers.
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New Rift on Petermann Glacier
Published April 19, 2017
Glaciologists are watching a new crack that has formed on a glacier in northwest Greenland.
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Meltwater Channels on Ellesmere Island
Published April 12, 2017
Meltwater has carved sinuous channels on the DeVries Glacier in the Canadian Arctic.
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Camp Century: Put on Ice, But Only for So Long
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Published January 31, 2017
By 2090, the scale could tilt in the favor of ice loss instead of buildup.
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New Studies Get to the Bottom of Antarctic Melting
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Published October 30, 2016
Researchers from NASA and the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have gained an unprecedented view of ice melting on the floating undersides of glaciers. In the process, they detected the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica.
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