NASA DC-8 Ice Data Could Aid Sea-Level-Rise Predictions

Credit: NASA/JANE PETERSON-NATURAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA
NASA’s DC-8 airborne laboratory is wrapping up the first of a series of Antarctic ice-survey missions aimed at better predicting how changes will affect sea levels around the world. The flights form part of the six-year Operation Ice Bridge mission, and come as NASA Dryden Flight Research Center...

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