Earth Expeditions

by Kate Ramsayer / PITUFFIK, GREENLAND/ It was a duck that led me to treasure. And a plane that led me to the duck. I set out that afternoon from Thule Air Base, walking down a gravel road with the Greenland Ice Sheet looming in the distance. I was trying to find an interesting view …

By Kate Ramsayer / PITUFFIK, GREENLAND/ I can't quite find the right words to describe summer sea ice from the air – which is unfortunate, since I'm writing this post about NASA's ICESat-2 summer sea ice airborne campaign. It's like miles and miles of shattered glass, these bits and pieces of ice broken apart and …