X-Nico

unusual facts about Greenland Ice Sheet



Glacier Girl

Glacier Girl is a Lockheed P-38F-1-LO Lightning World War II fighter plane, 41-7630, c/n 222-5757, that was restored to flying condition after being buried beneath the ice of the remote Greenland Ice Sheet for over 50 years.

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

It can be said with high confidence that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been losing mass in the last two decades and that Arctic sea ice and Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover have continued to decrease in extent.


see also

Glimpse

GLIMPSE Project, project to investigate thinning at the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet