NASA, Australia in Antarctic ice project

A world-leading NASA mission to survey ice levels in east Antarctica will for the first time leave from Australia.

Australian Antarctic Division Director Kim Ellis and Operation IceBridge deputy project scientist Linette Boisvert on the NASA's Gulfstream V. Source: Australian Antarctic Division

Australian and American scientists will team up in a world-leading NASA research mission to shed new light on ice in east Antarctica.

Operation IceBridge combines data from satellites, aircraft and ground crews in the largest survey of the Earth's changing ice levels.

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