Greenland Glaciers: What Lies Beneath (3 of 3) (IMAGE)

Ohio State University

Greenland Glaciers: What Lies Beneath (3 of 3)

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Researchers are deploying GPS units on glaciers in Greenland and Alaska to track the flow of ice out to sea. Team members from Ohio State University, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Colorado-Boulder/NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences reported their early results at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. Here a helicopter carries members of a research team from base camp to a Greenland glacier.

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Photo courtesy of Alberto Behar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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