OMG

Oceans Melting Greenland

past Mission

Type

Airborne Science

Launch

March 24, 2016

Target

Earth

Objective

Understand the role that ocean water plays in melting Greenland’s glaciers

OMG was a six-year campaign to survey water temperature and salinity in the ocean around Greenland's melting glaciers, to fine-tune estimates of sea-level rise.

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