Hundreds of scientific papers have come out of NASA’s Operation IceBridge, which ended this week.
Published Nov 23, 2019
When this closely watched slab of floating ice births a giant iceberg, it will not be the first time it has seen dramatic change.
Published Feb 7, 2017Image of the Day Heat Land Water Snow and Ice Sea and Lake Ice
Parts of this fast-melting ice shelf in West Antarctica were mapped and measured during an Operation IceBridge science flight.
Published Nov 10, 2016
This image shows the latest estimate of the ice edge around Law Promontory, which juts out from East Antarctica’s coastline near Stefansson Bay.
Published Jul 23, 2010
A sharp-edged rectangular iceberg floats near the Larsen C ice shelf.
Published Oct 23, 2018
The MODIS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this clear view of the Antarctic Peninsula, the Larsen Ice Shelf, and the sea ice covered waters around the region in October 2011.
Published Oct 15, 2011
In January 2015, a new iceberg broke off from an ice shelf in East Antarctica that had otherwise been quiet for decades.
Published Feb 7, 2015
This approximately true-color image shows ice fragments left over from previous breakups of the Wilkins Ice Shelf.
Published Apr 19, 2009
Researchers working on Operation Icebridge captured fresh photos and data from the ice on the bottom of the world.
Published Nov 10, 2012
Areas of new sea ice are visible in the vicinity of the Larsen C ice shelf off the Antarctic Peninsula.
Published Jan 2, 2018
To the untrained eye, Antarctica may look like a giant piece of solid ice that rarely changes, but scientists studying the continent have long known better. The icy surface is dynamic, with glaciers and "streams" of ice flowing toward the ocean.
Published Apr 27, 2007
A floating shelf of ice attached to the coast of Antarctica appears ready to shed an iceberg into the Southern Ocean.
Published Mar 10, 2016
Acquired October 7, 2011, this natural-color image shows an ice menagerie off the coast of East Antarctica.
Published Oct 23, 2011
Acquired in 2003, 2004,and 2005, these images show an intermittently ice-filled bay in the wake of the 2002 collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Published Apr 9, 2010
Approaching the icy continent by aircraft, the vast expanse of water and ice is suddenly broken by gray and brown rocky mountaintops
Published Dec 28, 2017
Researchers working in Antarctica have found evidence of large-scale ice making at the bottom of that continent's massive ice sheets.
Published Apr 21, 2011
NASA aircraft return to the Arctic to assess the health of the region’s ice.
Published May 3, 2012
