NASA’s Operation IceBridge Completes 11 Years of Polar Surveys

For 11 years from 2009 to 2019, the planes of NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew above the Arctic, Antarctic and Alaska, gathering data on the height, depth, thickness, flow and change of sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. As the team and planes move on to their next assignments, the scientists and engineers reflected on a decade of IceBridge’s most significant accomplishments. Music credit: “Foraging At Dusk“ by Benjamin James Parsons [PRS] “Orchestra Groove“ by James Alexander Dorman [PRS] “Watching Ladyb