OIB ATM Sitrep 4/30/18

Today we flew the much anticipated “Thomas-Jakobshavn 01” flight, which was our first real chance at collecting data in that area. The weather fully cooperated and we flew our longest flight yet on this campaign.
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Today we flew the much anticipated “Thomas-Jakobshavn 01” flight, which was our first real chance at collecting data in that area. The weather fully cooperated and we flew our longest flight yet on this campaign.
Today we flew the high priority “ICESat-2 South” mission with excellent weather conditions no areas of interference from clouds or fog. The majority of the lines were over the icecap, so there wasn’t much scenery
Yesterday we flew “Helheim-Kangerd” which was primarily an east coast flight, with stunning views on the coastline and low winds for the majority of the flight. We had no instrument issues and recorded data for
Today we successfully flew the mission “Southwest Glaciers Augmented”. This is a combination of some of the areas we missed on a previous flight due to clouds along with some new lines that had not
Yesterday we successfully flew the mission “Southeast Coastal” with extremely clear weather and no instrument issues for the entire flight. While it was mostly a land ice flight, Linette took some photos of the
Yesterday (Sunday) and today we flew missions on the West and East coasts respectively. On Sunday we flew “Southwest Coastal A” and today we flew “East Glaciers 01”. On Sunday we were delayed by local
Hello all! Today we flew a very successful and beautiful flight along the east coast of Greenland, “Geikie 2”. The views were spectacular and our instruments worked without any issues all day. Aside from the
OIB will attempt the land ice “Northwest Coastal A” mission today on a sunny clear morning in Thule (temperature about -10F) Sunrise thru one of the construction projects that’ll be resuming during the Thule summer.
OIB successfully completed the remaining Thule baseline mission today, flying the land ice “”Northwest Coastal A” in sunny and blue sky conditions. All OIB remote sensing instruments reported good data collection. The first 15
A successful land ice mission “Zachariæ-79North” was flown today, in very good weather and with all OIB remote sensing instruments reporting good data collection. We’re tracking the weather both locally and over Greenland and will