First Week Clarity and the Blur Ever Since
Veronica Hegelein
March 27, 2025
I stayed awake for a majority of the 6 hour overnight flight from Baltimore, Maryland to Pituffik Space Base, anxious for the moment I would
Life Under The Ice
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Guess Who SSHOWed UP in Greenland? My First Weeks of Snowmobiles, Sea Ice, and Science!
Jorge Coppin-Massanet
March 16, 2025
Greetings from the Top of the World! I’m Jorge Coppin-Massanet, a PhD student with the Cornell/NASA SSHOW UP team. My research focuses on developing advanced
Nature: Heterogeneous melting near the Thwaites Glacier grounding line
Peter Washam
February 15, 2023
View the full article in Nature In late 2019 and early 2020, the MELT team took Icefin beneath Thwaites Glacier (sometimes unfortunately referred to as
Pingo STARR: 2021 Mid-Field Season Update
Michelle Babcock
April 5, 2021
Pingo STARR is a NASA-funded program exploring ice-cored hills in the Arctic Tundra called pingos. These hills form from freezing ground water, forming a massive
Pingo SubTerranean Aquifer Reconnaissance & Reconstruction (Pingo STARR)
Michelle Babcock
April 2, 2021
Pingo SubTerranean Aquifer Reconnaissance & Reconstruction (Pingo STARR) is a NASA- funded research & analysis program grant supported through the innovative Planetary Science and Technology for Analog Research (PSTAR) program.
Pingo Parade: The Last Observations of the Dawn mission to Ceres
Michelle Babcock
August 10, 2020
The Last Observations of the Dawn mission to Ceres show tantalizing evidence the dwarf planet bears striking similarity with Earth and Mars. Pingos on Ceres are the focus of one of seven new papers based on data from NASA’s Dawn mission.