NASA
This pod attached to the bottom of NASA's Gulfstream III aircraft contains the civilian world's first L-band synthetic aperture radar meant to measure ice flow and thickness several hundred feet under the ice’s surface. Another radar will survey the ice's surface as a NASA operation staged at Thule from May 2 to June 8 makes multiple passes over the Greenland and Iceland ice caps. The purpose of the operation is to support the international polar year organization that tracks changes in the Earth's arctic regions and test the two radars, which may be used in future space-based platforms (Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Lisa Meiman).
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st Lt. Lisa Meiman.
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