Today’s Image of the Day comes from the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at a heavily-crevassed glacier on the southern Antarctic Peninsula.This image was captured by a NASA crew on board a …

Today’s Image of the Day comes from the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at sea ice floating in the Weddell Sea.This image was captured about 3 miles south of Bawden Ice Rise by …

Today’s Image of the Day comes from the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at the gray and brown mountaintops of the southern Antarctic Peninsula.These are the Crewick Peaks, located just east of George …

Today’s Image of the Day comes from the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at ice across the Transantarctic Mountains in Antarctica.The Transantarctic Mountains span the length of the continent and divide East …

Today’s Image of the Day comes courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at meltwater channels on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.This photo was captured by sea ice scientist …

NASA’s Operation IceBridge captured this fantastic image of the Getz Ice Shelf.IceBridge, is now eight years old, continues to record how ice is responding to environment changes. The Getz Ice Shelf in West Antarctica is …

Though it seems counter-intuitive, the Greenland ice sheet actually insulates the bedrock below from the cold air temperatures at the surface. As a result, the bottom of the ice—slowly warmed by heat coming from Earth’s …

In Greenland, snow and ice dominate much—but not all—of the landscape. This image mosaic shows an aerial view of a largely ice-free area near the western coast of North Greenland.Rocky areas in the scene are …

While flying over Antarctica aboard a P-3 aircraft in November 2013, Operation IceBridge project scientist Michael Studinger took this photograph (top) of Taylor Valley, one of Antarctica’s unique dry valleys. Home to Taylor Glacier, striking …

NASA aircraft and scientists have returned to the United States after a short ice-surveying mission to Antarctica. Despite having only a week of flying time, the team returned with crucial scientific data and a trove …

Scientists and crew with NASA’s Operation IceBridge, which makes annual aerial surveys of polar ice, are wrapping up their seventh campaign over the Arctic. In spring 2015, the team began using a different research aircraft—an …

For five years, Jeremy Harbeck has worked as a support scientist for NASA’s Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study polar ice. The data processing that he does typically takes place in an office at …