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NASA Mission Monitors Polar Ice

Antarctica jet filling in for dying satellite

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 30, 2009 1:02 PM CDT

(Newser) – NASA has begun a mission much closer to home than usual. The agency is flying a DC-8 over Antarctica to track melting glaciers and any subsequent rise in sea levels. Operation Ice Bridge is designed to buttress the work of a fading satellite, ICESat, which...   Read full story »

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