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Foundation Ice Stream Survey: NASA's Operation Ice Bridge

Caption: On Oct. 15 NASA's Operation IceBridge resumed Antarctic survey flights after a down day on Sunday. Over the next two days, IceBridge scientists carried out two more high priority land-ice flights, one over the Foundation Ice Stream and one over Thwaites Glacier. As earlier, plans to survey sea ice were put on temporary hold due to unfavorable weather conditions in the region. Looking like ocean waves is windblown snow coming off the Pensacola Mountains in Antarctica, as seen from the IceBridge DC-8 on Oct. 15. Full story: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/index.html

Credit: NASA / Jim Yungel

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