OMG
Oceans Melting Greenland
past Mission
Type
Airborne Science
Launch
March 24, 2016
Target
Earth
Objective
Understand the role that ocean water plays in melting Greenland’s glaciers
OMG was a six-year campaign to survey water temperature and salinity in the ocean around Greenland's melting glaciers, to fine-tune estimates of sea-level rise.
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