
Cracks in the ice could be seen during the Operation Ice Bridge flight on Nov. 4, 2009. The low-altitude flight…

NASA’s DC-8, on its way to the nearest point to the South Pole during the mission, flew over the Transantarctic…

Punta Arenas, Chile, is where Operation Ice Bridge’s Antarctic campaign is based. Weather permitting, flights leave from the airport in…

Thin ice is spotted from NASA’s DC-8 aircraft from an altitude of 1,500 feet during a successful flight over Antarctica’s…

The flight on Nov. 16 took scientists through a tour of the Antarctic cryosphere, including this look at a steep…

Antarctic ice meets the ocean, seen here from NASA’s DC-8 aircraft during a successful flight over Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier…

The edge of the Larsen Ice Shelf meets open water and sea ice, viewed from above during the 20th Ice…

EC95-42937-7 January 31, 1995 NASA Photo

An oblong iceberg roughly as big as Rhode Island called B-09B (center right in this image) collided with the edge…

EC95-42937-1 January 31, 1995 NASA Photo