At the southern end of the Earth, a NASA plane carrying a team of scientists and a sophisticated instrument suite to study ice is returning to surveying Antarctica. For the past eight years, Operation ...

A new dataset called Bedmap2 gives a clearer picture of Antarctica from the ice surface down to the bedrock below. Bedmap2 is a significant improvement on the previous collection of Antarctic ...

This image displays NASA's DC-8 research aircraft over the Pacific ocean during a trip to Chile. Operation IceBridge is in it's fourth year of an airborne mission to study Earth's changing polar ice.

Unearthing a relic from the Cold War era, NASA’s Operation IceBridge has discovered Camp Century, a clandestine US military base buried beneath the ice shelf of Greenland. The base, preserved under ...

A 460-mile-long stretch of canyon was discovered underneath Greenland's ice sheet by NASA's Operation IceBridge. It runs from the center of the island to the fjord of the Petermann Glacier. NASA's God ...

Volcano peak near Valdivia, Chile, as seen from the IceBridge DC-8. Credit: NASA / Jim Yungel. Scientists and flight crew members with Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne mission to study Earth’s ...

In October, 2011, NASA’s Operation IceBridge discovered a major rift in the Pine Island Glacier in western Antarctica. This crack, which extends at least 18 miles and is 50 meters deep, could produce ...

A view of Jakobshavn fjord from NASA's P-3B aircraft during the Apr. 4, 2013 IceBridge survey of the Jakobshavn Glacier basin, Greenland. Icebergs, seen here locked in place by sea ice, routinely ...

image: Crevasses in the MacAyeal Ice Stream (formerly Ice Stream E) on Antarctica's Siple Coast east of the Ross Ice Shelf captured by the Digital Mapping System camera aboard NASA's P-3 airborne ...

Last year, scientists with NASA's Operation IceBridge discovered an 18-mile schism forming on Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier. They now say that rift could break soon, launching a massive iceberg ...