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High above Greenland glaciers, NASA looks into melting ocean ice

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For four summers, a group of NASA scientists has visited Greenland and flown dozens of missions surveying temperatures in the Arctic and how quickly gladiers are retreatng. Data that Oceans Melting Greenland - OMG - hope will improve predictions about sea level rise.

Added on the 26/08/2019 03:00:32 - Copyright : AFP EN

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