by Kate Ramsayer / ANTARCTICA / I knew they were my favorite as soon as I saw them. Sastrugi, the ice dunes of the polar desert, covered the landscape when I first flew low over Antarctica with Operation IceBridge. They were amazing—winds had shaped them into repeating patterns, appearing as diamonds or fish scales or …
by Kate Ramsayer / THE SKIES ABOVE ANTARCTICA / The crack that would become B-46 was first noticed in September 2018 – and the berg broke the next month. NASA's Operation IceBridge flew over a new iceberg that is three times the size of Manhattan on Wednesday – the first known time anyone has laid …
Adrian Marchetti is an associate professor in the department of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was aboard the R/V Roger Revelle for the EXPORTS field campaign this August and September. So perhaps you read about the EXPORTS cruise and have heard about this place called Station P. You are …
by Kate Ramsayer / 20,000 FEET ABOVE THE SOUTH POLE / This was my first flight over Antarctica, and the vast expanse of ice – just white on the ground and blue in the sky as far as the eye can see – took my breath away. As Operation IceBridge flew directly over the South …
