An Old Bird on the Greenland Ice

A World War II era airplane has become a visual waypoint for researchers flying on the IceBridge polar mapping missions.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story An Old Bird on the Greenland Ice.

NASA photographs courtesy of IceBridge Digital Mapping System (top) and Michael Studinger, NASA GSFC (lower). Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published June 1, 2014
Data acquired May 1, 2014