NASA Flies To Greenland To Extend Polar Science
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 10:28
in Earth & Climate
Imagine a piece of ice 1,000 miles long, 400 miles wide, and 2 miles thick in the center. That's the Greenland ice sheet. But that island-sized piece of ice is melting, so NASA researchers are flying to the Arctic this week to learn more about the nature of those changes.
