Arfersiorfik Fjord, fjord in western Greenland, extending east from Davis Strait to the inland icecap. |
View of the icecap margin from the helicopter during transport of the team and equipment from the Iskut airstrip to the summit. |
High-resolution pictures from the Mars Express spacecraft also suggested the Olympus Mons volcano on the planet's equator may have an icecap made of water. |
A radar profile through the ice for a 1100 meter long traverse over the center of the icecap. |
It turned out to be the highlight of the expedition, the day they breasted the icecap. |
Since 1950 numerous core samples have been taken from the Greenland icecap and used to study climatic changes over tens of thousands of years. |