At Vandenberg AFB, NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 undergoes a solar array first motion test. The ICESat-2 sits on the transport inside NASA's Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force ...
From the frozen crags of the Andes and the Rockie mountains to the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica, the world’s ice has been melting at an accelerated rate in the last five years. This is ...
Operation IceBridge began when the mission of its ICESat satellite ended in 2009. The surveys, using a fixed-wing aircraft were meant to provide continuity from the end of the ICESat mission until the ...