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2016 GLISTIN-A Campaign

Photos and videos taken from the 2016 GLISTIN-A preparation and campaign (select an image to view it in full size).

Photo of NASA technicians putting the final touches on the GLISTIN-A instrument being installed on one of NASA's Gulfstream-III aircraft. Photo taken in the hangar at Armstrong Flight Research Center on March 15, 2016. See the corresponding post on the Earth Right Now blog.
Photo of NASA's Gulfstream-III aircraft on the tarmac at Armstrong Flight Research Center with the GLISTIN-A radar instrument installed, taken on March 15, 2016. Image courtesy of NASA/Ken Ulbrich.
Photo of JPL oceanographer Josh Willis (left), NASA Gulfstream-III pilot Dick Clark (center) and crew member Rocky Smith prepare to depart for the March 24 flight from Keflavik, Iceland, over coastal glaciers in Greenland. Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) began flights this week to measure glacier thickness. See the corresponding post on the NASA Earth Expeditions blog.
Video of Oceans Melting Greenland oceanographer Josh Willis reporting from Iceland where NASA's Gulfstream-III aircraft is about to make a science flight over the glaciers on the Eastern coast of Greenland.
Video of OMG Principal Investigator Josh Willis aboard NASA’s Gulfstream-III collecting data with the GLISTIN-A instrument over the eastern coast of Greenland on Thursday, March 24. See the corresponding post on the NASA Earth Expeditions blog.
Photo of the eastern coast of Greenland taken from NASA’s Gulfstream-III aircraft as it flew at about 40,000 feet on March 26 with the GLISTIN-A instrument aboard. See the corresponding post on the NASA Earth Expeditions blog.
Photo of the eastern coast of Greenland taken from NASA’s Gulfstream-III aircraft as it flew at about 40,000 feet on March 26 with the GLISTIN-A instrument aboard.
Photo of the eastern coast of Greenland taken from NASA’s Gulfstream-III aircraft as it flew at about 40,000 feet on March 26 with the GLISTIN-A instrument aboard.
Photo of NASA’s Gulfstream-III, outfitted with the GLISTIN-A interferometry radar on the bottom of the fuselage, takes off from Keflavik, Iceland on the morning of March 28, 2016, on its way to map Greenland glaciers and land in Thule, Greenland. See the corresponding post on the NASA Earth Expeditions blog.
Photo of the potential flight path around Greenland for NASA’s Gulfstream-III, outfitted with the GLISTIN-A instrument. See the corresponding post on the Earth Right Now blog.
Video from NASA TV's first episode of the Earth Expeditions program which follows the Oceans Melting Greenland team as they prep for their deployment and then fly over the melting glaciers of Greenland. Then we do some man on the street interviews, preview our next expedition, KORUS-AQ, which will study air quality in South Korea, and learn about NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory.