Date Taken:
October 17, 2012
Photograph By:
James Yungel, NASA IceBridge
Close look at the Thwaites Ice Shelf edge as seen from the NASA DC-8 on Oct. 16, 2012. The blue areas of ice are denser, compressed ice. NASA's Operation IceBridge is an airborne science mission to study Earth's polar ice. See the NASA IceBridge website for more information.
Aerial,
Antarctica,
Climate Change,
Glacier,
Ice,
Iceberg,
IceBridge,
NASA,
NSF,
Oceans,
Water
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