OMG Stories
NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland Mission Leaves for Its Last Field Trip
The pioneering campaign drops probes from a plane into the sea to track how seawater is melting glaciers and lend insight into the future of sea level rise. This week, NASA’s airborne Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission begins its final…
“We came here to work”: NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) campaign in the field
Kulusuk Island is breathtakingly beautiful — a spectacular mountain backdrop, quaint village, turquoise icebergs, even adorable sled-dog puppies. But Oceans Melting Greenland Project Manager Steve Dinardo didn’t choose it as a base because of the scenery. “We came here to…
A majestic glacier on a NASA campaign’s return to Greenland
“Incredibly majestic.” After years of intensive research on Greenland’s glaciers, Josh Willis is standing next to one for the first time in his life. Apusiaajik isn’t one of Greenland’s giants — in fact, its name means “little glacier.” But its…
NASA gets up close with Greenland’s melting ice
With a new research plane and a new base to improve its chances of outsmarting hurricanes, NASA's OMG campaign takes to the sky this week.
OMG mission maps Greenland’s coastline
NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland program will study how the oceans are eating away at Greenland's ice sheet and help scientists predict sea level rise.