#icebridge

[kitsunabi]

Furina’s move set is about as flashy as I expected but it’s really cute thooooo :0

[relto]

i really want to see what happens when you take furina on a walk into the storm around inazuma. no low ar player has accepted my join request so far.

did a few runs of that stamina eating talent domain. i think i accidentally did a dragonstrike with hu tao???

[decayedgloria]

AHAHAHA I FINALLY GOT WHORESLAYER YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

new wriothesley + kaeya drabble that's been sitting in my drafts for so LONG i just need to finish like the last paragraph lmao

[alaskaenmelena]

☄️ This amazing photo of Antarctica was taken by a survey plane as part of the Operation IceBridge project to map and monitor the Antarctic ice sheet

[a-little-potat0]

Doodle world art!!

(The end of icebridge was sad bruh😔)

Also really easy ngl....

[abdulaziz2023]

جبل جليدي على شكل مستطيل – 📍القارة القطبية الجنوبية

اكتشف باحثو وكالة ناسا NASA "جبلًا جليديًا مستطيلًا" انفصل عن نهر جليدي كبير في عام 2018 وذلك ضمن عملية IceBridge العلمية.

📸 تصوير: ناسا NASA // بواسطة جيريمي هاربيك Jeremy Harbeck

[rosefinch07]

The only thoughts going through my head rn are jason/jaime gay and dc characters playing genshin but i have hit writer's block so this is not going to be that coherent

Jaime stubbornly mains cyno and keeps going out into sumeru to get the scarabs and goes "i may be blue beetle but i cannot find scarabs for SHIT"

He is also a yanfei main, he loves his lawyer

jason is a navia and chevrus main, he switches to chevrus and an electro character while doing coop with jaime

Jaime will just be on his world and farming for scarabs and jason joins, runs off, and then immediate gunshots in the distance as he shoots down sumpter beasts w navia

Jaime and jason taking down domains together AAAAA

Jaime, at three in the morning playing genshin: jason why are you still online

Jason, also playing genshin at 3am: why are YOU online

They end up farming maracusse artifacts bc jason has lynette and lyney and jaime has a kuki and they all love to hurt themselves

Jaime is attatched to sumeru and jason is attatched to fontaine

The second jason gets wriosthley he LOVES icebridging suddenly

I could go on for decades

Literal decades

[nen-shin-impact]

do you think hoyo put off making a cryo catalyst for so long bc they knew it would put kaeya out of his icebridging job?

[fagatakonin]

icebridging is OUT

[dream-world-universe]

RV Lance ois the research vessel of Polarinstituttet, the Norwegian Polar Research Institute. Here at the Svalbard archipelago (Adventfjorden)

RV Lance - Wikidata

Norwegian Research Vessel R/V Lance

The Norwegian research vessel R/V Lance as captured by the Digital Mapping System during an Operation IceBridge flight on March 19, 2015.

The Norwegian research vessel R/V Lance as captured by the Digital Mapping System during an Operation IceBridge flight on March 19, 2015. IceBridge flew over a survey field established by a science team aboard the Lance as part of the airborne mission’s Arctic 2015 campaign. Credits: NASA/IceBridge/DMS

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Norwegian Research Vessel R/V Lance - NASA

RV Lance - An Important Norwegian Marine Vessel

"The Lance was launched in 1978 as a combined fishing and sealing vessel for arctic waters. At the time she proved too large and expensive to run, and her career as a fishing vessel was brief. Seeing Lance’s potential for other tasks, the Norwegian Hydrographic Service acquired her in 1981, and she was rebuilt to meet requirements as a hydrographic survey vessel also suitable for research, expeditions and oil recovery purposes. She was rebuilt again in 1992 to meet requirements for research expeditions in the Antarctic and the Arctic. The Norwegian Hydrographic Service operated Lance until 1994, using her both as a survey vessel and as a research vessel for the Norwegian Polar Institute and other institutions. In 1994 she was handed over to the Norwegian Polar Institute. In the period 1995-2000 Lance also served as a coastguard vessel in the Barents Sea for parts of the year (hence the grey colour scheme in some pictures)." - from the Lance website.

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet up with two APECS Council members, Alexey Pavlov (Russia) and Ella Darlington (UK) after they returned from a cruise in the Arctic onboard the Norwegian ship, the R/V Lance. Alexey and Ella along with Paul Dodd gave me a nice tour of this old, but sturdy vessel, which perhaps some of you have been on. 

Association of Polar Early Career Scientists - RV Lance - An Important Norwegian Marine Vessel (apecs.is)

The Norwegian research vessel Lance is stuck in the Arctic ice, 2015

[sublimeobservationarcade]

Trump Blames Ukraine For Being Invaded By Russia

Trump is like the parent of a raped daughter who blames her rather than the perpetrator for the rape. Trump blames Ukraine for being invaded by Russia. Donald Trump is a disgusting human being. The Americans who voted for Trump should hang their heads in shame. We can only hope that someone with the courage can end this shameful chapter sooner rather than later. What the world needs now is not ugly Americans in charge of a corrupt and morally bankrupt administration. Stupid is as stupid does. Trump 2.0 is making America smaller not greater. “You should have never started it. You should have made a deal.” The comment — ignoring that it was Russia that invaded Ukraine without provocation three years ago this month — was Trump’s harshest condemnation to date of the Ukrainian side.” - (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-blames-zelenskyy-ukraine-war-020517 )

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Donald Trump Normalising Aggressor Behaviour

Trump is normalising relationships with an aggressive dictator who invaded and tried to conquer a neighbouring nation. The mob boss mentality evidenced by Trump’s behaviour is on display for the world to see. The complicity of billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg in this vile regime should inspire right minded people to boycott America and American businesses. Take your money away from their companies, goods and services. Do what you can to weaken economically these nefarious businesses and their oligarchs. “Last week in Europe, the United States sent some very strong messages it is prepared to upend the established global order. US Vice President JD Vance warned a stunned Munich Security Conference that Europe has an “enemy within”, referring to leaders who ignore their citizens’ concerns and values. He also advocated for right-wing political groups to be brought into the mainstream.” _ (https://theconversation.com/trumps-view-of-the-world-is-becoming-clear-americas-interests-matter-more-than-any-set-of-rules-250144)

A Veterans’ Day photo from Operation IceBridge by NASA Goddard Photo and Video is licensed under CC-BY 2.0 Trump’s America Is No Friend To Democracy & Justice If we do nothing and go along with what is unfolding right before our eyes we are complicit. If you lower your gaze and think I will just get on with my life you will regret it when they come for you and yours. Fascist dictatorships start like this and before you know it your freedoms are gone and by then it is too late. If you know what Trump is doing re-Ukraine and Putin’s Russia is wrong and do nothing you are going along with it. If other countries stand back and allow this travesty to go unchecked the world as we know it is over. This transactional ethos is bereft of what makes humans different over the last several centuries from what went before. It is a return to brute force over other considerations. Trump is a bully who admires other bullies. We all have a choice either to do nothing or do whatever we can to protest against it. Don’t fund Trump’s America. Send a message. Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump. ©WordsForWeb

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[bladelasdragon]

Wario dies following the pup and the icebridge collapse

bonus Wario dies security breach animatronics

[not-the-darknight]

No, actually. Freezing temperatures are the same as a human. It's not a good thing, though, I can only get my body temperature to around 35C. It's enough to function, but slowly and shivery. - Zhongli

Then I'll accompany you through cold plains if you ever need to. Snow and freezing temperatures have never been a problem for me. Kaeya once tried to freeze sea water and make an icebridge to get us from one island to another. It was quite the problem because my body heat kept melting it. [I chuckle remembering the memory]

He was very annoyed with that

[aldocerandaz]

El hielo marino del Ártico es el sexto más bajo registrado

La Antártida experimenta un crecimiento bajo récord El hielo marino del Ártico alcanzó una extensión mínima de 4,8 millones de kilómetros cuadrados el 19 de septiembre de 2023, según datos de la NASA y el NSIDC. Un iceberg solitario en medio del hielo marino a lo largo de la costa al este del fiordo Sermilik. Foto tomada durante un vuelo de la Operación IceBridge el 27 de abril de…

[mxror]

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[nasa]

Perfect 10: A Decade of Studying Ice from the Sky

From 2009 through 2019, our Operation IceBridge flew planes above the Arctic, Antarctic and Alaska, measuring the height, depth, thickness, flow and change of sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets.

IceBridge was designed to “bridge” the years between NASA’s two Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellites, ICESat and ICESat-2. IceBridge made its final polar flight in November 2019, one year after ICESat-2’s successful launch.

A lot of amazing science happens in a decade of fundamentally changing the way we see ice. Here, in chronological order, are 10 of IceBridge’s most significant and exciting achievements.

2009: Go for launch

The first ICESat monitored ice, clouds, atmospheric particles and vegetation globally beginning in 2003. As ICESat neared the end of its life, we made plans to keep measuring ice elevation with aircraft until ICESat-2’s launch.

ICESat finished its service in August 2009, leaving IceBridge in charge of polar ice tracking for the next decade.

2009: Snow on sea ice

To measure how thick sea ice is, we first have to know how much snow is accumulated on top of the ice. Using a snow radar instrument, IceBridge gathered the first widespread data set of snow thickness on top of both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice.

2009: Getting to the bottom of glaciers 

IceBridge mapped hundreds of miles of grounding lines in both Antarctica and Greenland. Grounding lines are where a glacier’s bottom loses contact with the bedrock and begins floating on seawater – a grounding line that is higher than rock that the ice behind it is resting on increases the possibility of glaciers retreating in the future. 

The team mapped 200 glaciers along Greenland’s coastal areas, as well as coastal areas, the interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet and high-priority areas in Antarctica.

2011: Spotting cracks in the ice

While flying Antarctica in 2011, IceBridge scientists spotted a massive crack in Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-changing glaciers on the continent. The crack produced a new iceberg that October.

Pine Island has grown thinner and more unstable in recent decades, spawning new icebergs almost every year. IceBridge watched for cracks that could lead to icebergs and mapped features like the deep water channel underneath Pine Island Glacier, which may bring warm water to its underside and make it melt faster.

2013: Making a map of rock

Using surface elevation, ice thickness and bedrock topography data from ICESat, IceBridge and international partners, the British Antarctic Survey created an updated map of the bedrock beneath Antarctic ice.

Taking gravity and magnetic measurements helps scientists understand what kind of rock lies below the ice sheet. Soft rock and meltwater make ice flow faster, while hard rock makes it harder for the ice to flow quickly.

2013: Surprises under the ice

IceBridge’s airborne radar data helped map the bedrock underneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, revealing a previously unknown canyon more than 400 miles long and up to a half mile deep slicing through the northern half of the country.

The “grand canyon” of Greenland may have once been a river system, and today likely transports meltwater from Greenland’s interior to the Arctic Ocean.

2015: It’s what’s inside (the ice sheet) that counts

After mapping the bedrock under the Greenland Ice Sheet, scientists turned their attention to the middle layers of the ice. Using both ice-penetrating radar and ice samples taken in the field, IceBridge created the first map of the ice sheet’s many layers, formed as thousands of years of snow became compacted downward and formed ice.

Making the 3D map of Greenland’s ice layers gave us clues as to how the ice sheet has warmed in the past, and where it may be frozen to bedrock or slowly melting instead.

2018: Gap bridged!

ICESat-2 launched on September 15, 2018, rocketing IceBridge into the final phase of its mission: Connecting ICESat and ICESat-2.

IceBridge continued flying after ICESat-2’s launch, working to verify the new satellite’s measurements. By conducting precise underflights, where planes traced the satellite’s orbit lines and took the same measurements at nearly the same time, the science teams could compare results and make sure ICESat-2’s instruments were functioning properly.

2018: An impact crater under the ice

Using IceBridge data, an international team of scientists found an impact crater from a meteor thousands of years in the past. The crater is larger than the city of Washington, D.C., likely created by a meteor more than half a mile wide.

2019: Flying into the sunset

In 2019, IceBridge continued flying in support of ICESat-2 for its Arctic and Antarctic campaigns. The hundreds of terabytes of data the team collected over the decade will fuel science for years to come.

IceBridge finished its last polar flight on November 20, 2019. The team will complete one more set of Alaska flights in 2020.

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