Glaciers in southwest Greenland, aerial photograph. This flight was part of IceBridge Arctic 2012. Operation IceBridge is a NASA project that monitors

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Glaciers in southwest Greenland, aerial photograph. This flight was part of IceBridge Arctic 2012. Operation IceBridge is a NASA project that monitors polar ice cover using aircraft instead of satellites. It was introduced in 2009 as a replacement for the malfunctioning ICESat satellite. Photographed on 25 April 2012.

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Photo credit: © Maria-Jose Vinas, NASA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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