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Preparing For Antarctic Flights in the California Desert
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Preparing For Antarctic Flights in the California Desert

NASA / GSFC · 2017-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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At first glance a dry lake bed in the southern California desert seems like the last place to prepare to study ice. But on Oct. 2, 2014, NASA’s Operation IceBridge carried out a ground-based GPS survey of the El Mirage lake bed in California’s Mojave Desert. Members of the IceBridge team are currently at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, preparing instruments aboard the DC-8 research aircraft for flights over Antarctica.

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Credit linePreparing For Antarctic Flights in the California Desert. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000959.
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