Arctic Ocean
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NASA
NASA Scientists Take to Air and Space to Study Arctic Sea Ice
This month, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California are testing a spacecraft sensor that will help measure how quickly Arctic sea ice is disappearing. And while that instrument won’t launch for another year, scientists started preparing for its use during a recent field campaign in the Canadian wilderness. Researchers spent two weeks in April flying above the…
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Autos
Hyundai Canada EV Road Trip: An Electrifying Adventure to the Arctic Ocean
Hyundai Auto Canada is proud to announce the launch of an unprecedented road trip, “The Hyundai Canada EV Road Trip,” a bold project that will take a fully electric, 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 all the way to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, driving through five provinces and two territories across Canada. N/A (CNW Group/Hyundai Auto Canada Corp.) N/A (CNW Group/Hyundai Auto Canada…
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NASA
Arctic Sea Ice Near Historic Low; Antarctic Ice Continues Decline
Arctic sea ice retreated to near-historic lows in the Northern Hemisphere this summer, likely melting to its minimum extent for the year on Sept.11, 2024, according to researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). The decline continues the decades-long trend of shrinking and thinning ice cover in the Arctic Ocean. The amount of frozen seawater…
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NASA
NASA Returns to Arctic Studying Summer Sea Ice Melt
What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic, and a new NASA mission is helping improve data modeling and increasing our understanding of Earth’s rapidly changing climate. Changing ice, ocean, and atmospheric conditions in the northernmost part of Earth have a large impact on the entire planet. That’s because the Arctic region acts like Earth’s air conditioner. Much…
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