NASA's Operation IceBridge Completes Eleven Years of Polar Surveys (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's Operation IceBridge Completes Eleven Years of Polar Surveys

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The new bedrock map of Antarctica developed in 2013 from IceBridge and other data was far more detailed than previous maps, giving researchers and modelers new information about how ice flows or sticks on the rock below the Antarctic ice sheet.

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Credits: Credit: NASA / Cynthia Starr

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