Laser Mapping of Greenland’s Summer Ice Melt Begins
THULE, Greenland, and GREENBELT, Md., Nov. 6, 2013 — For the first time, NASA is laser-mapping changes to the Greenland Ice Sheet produced by a single season of summer melt. The data gathered will provide a more comprehensive view of season changes and provide context for a more ambitious mapping mission scheduled to launch in 2016. The new airborne campaign, part of an ongoing mission known as Operation IceBridge, began Oct. 31 with a crew from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia arriving in Greenland, and it will continue through Nov. 1...