The U.S. space agency plans Monday in Greenland to begin a second year of polar ice cap surveys to inspect global climate change.NASA will send its aircraft Monday to Greenland to begin Operation IceBridge, which the space agency hails as the largest airborne survey of the polar ice caps.
The mission is to monitor fluctuations in the world's polar ice sheets, said by Tom Wagner, cryosphere program manager for NASA.
"The mission's goal is to gather the most important data for improving predictive models of sea level rise and global climate change," Tom Wagner added.
Arctic sea ice peaks every year in March or else early April, NASA said and the Antarctic missions are conducted in every October and November.
NASA said it would focus on unusual patterns in the glaciers in Greenland. A few have thinned at a rate of 40 feet for each year while others have thickened.
The space agency said it plans to log around 200 science flight hours for the IceBridge mission during the spring.
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