Eye in sky monitors ice cap changes
Last Updated Tue, 23 May 2006 11:17:22 EDT
CBC News
Scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are flying over the shrinking Arctic ice cap this summer in an effort to determine just how much the melting ice is contributing to the rise of sea level worldwide.
NASA is using a Twin Otter plane to study ice caps including the Penny and Barnes caps on Baffin Island, the Devon Island ice cap and Agassiz on Ellesmere Island.
"The Canadian Arctic actually has the largest amount of ice on the planet outside of Greenland and Antarctica, so it's an obvious place to try and understand how much water is going from there," said Martin Sharpe, a professor at the University of Alberta.
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