Follow our ➡️ #InstagramStory with Getty Images news photographer (mario_tama) who joined NASA’s Operation IceBridge to monitor Arctic ice loss over Greenland and Canada. According to NASA scientists and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), sea ice in the Arctic appears to have reached its lowest maximum wintertime extent ever recorded on March 7. Scientists have said the Arctic has been one of the regions hardest hit by climate change. __ “NASA’s Operation IceBridge P-3 research aircraft flies over a section of glacier on the Upper Baffin Bay coast in Greenland. The aircraft was initially delivered to the Navy in 1966 and has been retrofitted with science instruments to monitor Arctic ice loss.”- mario_tama | March 27, 2017 | #GettyImagesNews #PhotographerTakeover [2 of 4]