{"id":551357,"date":"2026-07-20T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/551357\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:36:09","slug":"new-nasa-earth-missions-gear-up-to-start-science-flights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/551357\/","title":{"rendered":"New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"cypdj\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/snow4flow.lpl.arizona.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snow4Flow<\/a>\u00a0campaign,\u00a0led by the University of Arizona, seeks to measure and model how far and fast glaciers are retreating in the far north. Traversing remote icescapes across Alaska, the Yukon, Arctic Canada, Greenland, and Svalbard,\u00a0Norway,\u00a0they\u2019ll sound both the near-surface and frozen depths of hundreds of glaciers\u00a0while flying over in a modernized WWII-era aircraft outfitted with a scanning laser altimeter and two custom radars.\u00a0Their\u00a0observations, combined with\u00a0satellite data and\u00a0advanced models of snowfall and glacier flow, will advance our understanding of how glaciers behave in different regions of the Arctic. The mission seeks to uncover\u00a0not just what these glaciers look like beneath the surface today, but\u00a0the\u00a0processes that will drive changes in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"14j8g\">As permafrost thaws, rivers on the doorstep of the Arctic become\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/as-the-arctic-warms-its-waters-are-emitting-carbon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conveyor belts<\/a>\u202fof carbon and sediment. NASA Goddard,\u00a0and the City College of New York\u00a0lead\u00a0a\u202fmultidisciplinary\u202fteam studying how rivers, lagoons, and estuaries across Alaska\u2019s North Slope\u202finteract with the Arctic Ocean. The project, called\u00a0Frontlines of Rapidly Transforming Ecosystems\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/cce.nasa.gov\/forte\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FORTE<\/a>)\u202fwill combine optical and radar measurements from\u202fsatellites,\u202fplanes, high-tech\u202fresearch vessels, drones,\u202fand underwater autonomous systems to track microscopic marine life, water flow, and\u202fchemistry. The team will collaborate with local\u00a0and tribal\u00a0communities to sustain observations over time\u202fand apply NASA assets to address emerging local needs and decision-making priorities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Snow4Flow\u00a0campaign,\u00a0led by the University of Arizona, seeks to measure and model how far and fast glaciers are retreating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-551357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}