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PIA24984: NASA's OMG at Thule Air Base, Greenland
NASA's Gulfstream III was one of several research aircraft that OMG used during the mission's six-year field campaign. Airports in Greenland, Iceland, and Norway served as bases for research flights.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  OMG 
 Product Size:  3024 x 2697 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA24984.tif (16.96 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA24984.jpg (565.8 kB)  

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NASA's Gulfstream III was one of several research aircraft that NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland mission used during its six-year field campaign to record the temperature, salinity, and depth of the ocean around the entire island. OMG used airports in Greenland, Iceland, and Norway as bases for research flights. This image was taken at Thule Air Base, Greenland, on Sept. 18, 2016.

For more information about the OMG mission: https://omg.jpl.nasa.gov/portal/

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2022-01-26