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نشر في: السبت,29 أبريل , 2017 3:30م

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Snap happy: Getty photographer Mario Tama accompanied Nasa scientists to the Arctic this March in a bid to learn more about the impact of climate change on the landscape (above, a section of glacier cutting through Ellesmere Island, Canada)

Sweeping landscape: Ellesmere Island is peppered with vast fjords, and the northern coast is extended by ice shelves - aprons of sea ice that are fused to the shore (above, a patchwork of ice fields)

Blue haze: During his Nasa assignment, Tama gained privileged access to some of the world's most remote spots (above, a section of glacier runs through a valley along the Upper Baffin Bay coast, which is located above Greenland)

Barren lands: The remnants of a caribou herd decimated by Arctic explorer Robert E Peary in 1909 during his attempt to reach the North Pole can be found on Ellesmere Island (above, a section of a glacier)

Thinning patches: The ice fields of Ellesmere Island in Canada (seen above) are retreating due to warming temperatures

Swimming off limits: After Antarctica, Greenland's ice cap contains the second largest mass of frozen freshwater in the world

Rugged: A section of a glacier is seen on Ellesmere Island, which is considered a true polar desert, with only 7mm of precipitation annually in some places 

Haunting: The landscape in the Arctic is one of the most mesmerising on earth - taking on an almost other-worldly quality

Under threat: The ice sheet covers 660,000 square miles (1,710,000 square km), or roughly 80 per cent of the surface of Greenland, but it is said to be thinning due to climate change

Upward trend: Currently, melting from Greenland is thought to account for around 10 per cent of sea level rise, which could have major impacts on flooding around the world

Hidden from view: A University of California, Irvine and Nasa study shows southern Greenland's ragged, crumbling coastline is scored by more than 100 canyons beneath glaciers that empty into the ocean

Bird's eye view: For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge, a Nasa mission that conducts aerial surveys of polar ice, has produced unprecedented three-dimensional views of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets 

Icy wonders:  A view from the window of Nasa's Operation IceBridge research aircraft, this year a retrofitted 1966 Lockheed P-3 aircraft was used for missions

Twilight zone: Ellesmere Island, which is located within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is the world's tenth largest island and Canada's third largest island

In the pilot's seat: Nasa's Operation IceBridge spring campaign flights started on March 9 and will continue until May 12

First class work: Nasa mission scientist John Sonntag seen busy at work by the cockpit before takeoff from Thule Air Base on March 27 in Pituffik, Greenland

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