Science

NASA on Greenland’s Thinning Ice

NASA’s OMG and Operation IceBridge missions are investigating the thinning of Greenland’s ice sheets from both above and below.

Credit: NASA on Greenland’s Thinning Ice, originally published in Climate State, 2017 (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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