Video: Flying Through a Crack in the Ice
In October 2011, researchers flying in NASA's Operation IceBridge campaign made the first-ever detailed, airborne measurements of a major iceberg calving event while it was in progress. Four months...
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Network building: POLENET project in Antarctica completes GPS/seismic array
Network building: POLENET project in Antarctica completes GPS/seismic array Scientists install a GPS station in the Whitmore Mountains during low temperatures and high winds. Photo Credit: Seith...
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NASA's IceBridge 2012 Arctic Campaign Takes to the Skies
Dawn over the P-3B and the Thule airport tower. Credit: NASA/Jim Yungel Researchers and flight crew with NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in polar ice, began another...
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South Pole Telescope Finishes Five-year Survey of Galaxy Clusters
Construction workers on a lift assemble the metal superstructure for the ground shield on the South Pole Telescope during the 2011-12 field season. The shield will eliminate ground reflection...
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NASA LRO Image: Luna 23's Rough Landing On The Moon
The entire Luna 23 vehicle (descent stage, ascent stage and Earth-return capsule) landed at an unexpected speed and fell on its side. Enlargement of vehicle in lower left inset; D: descent stage, A:...
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Image: Kamchatka Peninsula As Seen From Space
Our Earth is itself a fragile 'spaceship', but we tend to forget this in our everyday lives. Sometimes distance is required from a subject to appreciate it fully. ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers is taking...
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ESA and NASA join forces to measure Arctic sea ice
Marking another remarkable collaborative effort, ESA and NASA met up over the Arctic Ocean this week to perform some carefully coordinated flights directly under CryoSat orbiting above. The data...
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Warm Ocean Currents Cause Majority of Ice Loss from Antarctica
Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, a new study using measurements from NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation...
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International Team Installs First of Three Telescopes in Antarctica
A team of scientists representing several international institutions, including Texas A&M University, has succeeded in installing the first of three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3-1) at the...
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Yeti Robot Tackles Crevasse Detection in Polar Regions
Engineer Eric Trautmann checks on Yeti during a test of the robot in October 2010 along the South Pole Traverse route through the McMurdo shear zone. The goal was to compare GPR quality and rover...
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NASA Icescape Image: Sunset in the Arctic
Sunsets started to tease the Arctic horizon as scientists on board the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy headed south in the Chukchi Sea during the final days collecting ocean data for the 2011 ICESCAPE...
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Image: Video Chat Between the Space Station and Concordia Base in Antarctica
A nice video contact with the crew overwintering in Concordia, the European Antarctic research station. This photo was taken on June 3, 2012 by International Space Station astronaut Andre Kuipers...
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Stunning Image: Blue Marble 2012 - Arctic View
Fifteen orbits of the recently launched Suomi NPP satellite provided the VIIRS instrument enough time (and longitude) to gather the pixels for this synthesized view of Earth showing the Arctic,...
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Photo: Polar Mesospheric Clouds As Seen From The International Space Station
Polar mesospheric clouds in the Northern Hemisphere are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 31 crew member on the International Space Station. In both the Northern and Southern...
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Waiting for the sun: Antarctic research stations observe winter solstice
Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: U.S. Antarctic Program research stations across Antarctica marked the beginning of the end of winter this week. read more
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'Moon' mission sends back first images from Victoria Island
It might not be a giant leap for mankind just yet, but Western-led training in the Canadian Arctic may lead to the first steps for future international missions to the Moon or Mars. In order to...
View ArticleVideo: Life on an Ice Planet
So this is what I did over this past winter when I was not making people coffee. It's all time-lapse footage shot in and around Anchorage, Alaska, with the emphasis on the nature around the city...
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Image: Aurora Australis Over Concordia Station
A stunning image showing Aurora Australis - the Southern Lights - glowing over Concordia station in the Antarctic, one of the remotest places on Earth, on 18 July 2012. It was taken by ESA-sponsored...
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Hidden rift valley discovered beneath West Antarctica
Scientists have discovered a one mile deep rift valley hidden beneath the ice in West Antarctica, Experts from the University of Aberdeen and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) made the discovery below...
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U.S. Antarctic Program Infrastructure Needs Major Upgrades
By Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor - An independent committee charged with assessing the logistics requirements for the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) to support research into the 21st century has...
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