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Meet GROVER the Rover, Set For Greenland Exploration

May 7, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter How fast is Greenland’s ice sheet melting in response to climate change, and how is it recovering? A new NASA rover with the friendly name of GROVER (Greeland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research) is going to [...]

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NASA Scientists Soar Over a Mini Ice Cap

April 29, 2013

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. Called Saunders Island (also Appat Island) the 82-square-mile frozen slab of rock rises from [...]

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An Enormous Arctic Spiral

February 14, 2013

Looking south across the southern tip of Greenland, this satellite image shows an enormous cloud vortex spiraling over the northern Atlantic ocean on January 26, 2013. An example of the powerful convection currents in the upper latitudes, these polar low cyclones are created when the motion of cold air is energized by the warmer ocean water [...]

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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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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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