Can you stuff all the sights and science of a 12-hour mission into just three minutes? Maybe not, but here’s our first try, chronicling NASA’s recent flight to Antarctica’s remote Getz Ice Shelf, where Operation IceBridge measured everything from the ice surface to the bedrock below, flew low over giant icebergs, and even scanned a lengthy new crack in the ice.

• Getz Ice Shelf: Iceberg B-34 Makes Its Debut off Antarctica http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85727
• Getz Ice Shelf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getz_Ice_Shelf