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NASA Scientists Soar Over a Mini Ice Cap

April 29, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter It’s quite a long way from Mars, but I can’t help but be reminded of the Red Planet’s ice-covered north pole when looking at this photo taken by Michael Studinger earlier this month, during a recent IceBridge survey flight over Greenland. [...]

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Global Temperatures Continue to Rise

January 17, 2013

This week, scientists at NASA released their global climate analysis for 2012 which revealed that Earth continues to experience warmer temperatures than several decades ago. The past year was the ninth warmest year on record since 1880, continuing what appears to be a long-term global trend of rising temperatures. The ten warmest years in the [...]

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NASA Satellite Sees Ghostly Remains of Vanishing Arctic Sea Ice

October 28, 2012

Sea ice swirls in ocean currents off the coast of Greenland (NASA/GSFC) Spooky spectral swirls of last season’s sea ice drift in currents off the coast of eastern Greenland in this image from NASA’s Aqua satellite, acquired on October 17. Although sea ice in the Arctic will start forming again after September’s record low measurements, [...]

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Manhattan-Sized Ice Island Heads Out to Sea

September 17, 2012

An “ice island” that calved from the Petermann Glacier in July is seen by NASA satellite (MODIS/Terra) Remember that enormous slab of ice that broke off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier back in July? It’s now on its way out to sea, a little bit smaller than it was a couple of months ago — but not [...]

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Greenland Glacier Calves Another Huge Ice Island

July 24, 2012

Petermann glacier, a 70 km (43 mile) long tongue of ice that flows into the Arctic Ocean in northwest Greenland, recently calved an “ice island” approximately 130 square kilometers (50 sq. miles) — about twice the area of Manhattan. The image above, acquired by NASA’s Terra satellite, shows the ice island as it drifts toward [...]

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