We are doing this 1 hour flight in 3 parts:
This page takes us over the ice sheet.
So, where are we now? We are almost here (I took the glacier pictures that follow before I did this one):
So let's follow that glacier we saw at the end of the first page:
It goes on and on, and finally it becomes hard to find in the ice sheet. But we are still on the eastern end of the sheet, and there are large areas of cracks in the ice that feed glaciers far away to the east:
Now we look all around and see very little structure in the ice below (at the top right is our last glimpse of the east coast):
That is ice we are looking at, not clouds. If we look straight down we do se some structure:
And if we look north, nothing but ice as far as we can see, with some undulating gentle waves apparent in terms of structure:
We are really on the ice, in fact, we are about halfway across the 500-mile wide country (where we are crossing it takes 1 hour from coast to coast, at about 520-540 miles per hour):
As soon as we are past the halfway point, structures are larger, and I have no explanation for them but guess they are results of storms and winds effecting large areas differently:
It doesn't take long after the midpoint to begin to see signs of an approaching edge in the ice below, which is what I took these huge, long cracks to signify:
In this area of large cracks there were some structures that looked less than natural, but I really don't know:
Soon I was looking down at more familiar flow-features like we have just seen at the beginnings of a glacier on the east side. The ice was now definitely going downhill to the west, and to the northwest it appeared there was a change coming, signaling we are now ready for page 3!
We are doing this 1 hour flight in 3 parts:
This page took us over the ice sheet.
And this link takes you back to my previous pages on Greenland from the air.