NASA plans to launch ICESat-2 in 20118. They have collected data from Greenland as apart of their Arctic ice over survey in the past couple years. Airborne missions alone have advanced scientific understanding of Arctic sea and land ice since the program launched nine years ago. According to nasa spring 2017 was the most abundant in the data collection over Greenland. From these airborne surveys, scientists found that the layer of snow covering sea ice on the Eurasian side was thinner than models predicted. Previous surveys consisted of 39 8-hour flights over 10 weeks, with 13 expeditions focused on sea ice and the other 26 focused on land ice. This summer, IceBride will continue their data collection to see how the arctic sea and land is affected by the melt season.
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