NASA Langley researchers are heading to the Arctic. Here’s why that matters.

NASA Langley researchers are heading to the Arctic Ocean to study the habitat’s effect on climate worldwide.

The ARCSIX, or Arctic Radiation Cloud Aerosol Surface Interaction Experiment, airborne campaign will fly out of Pituffik Space Force Base in Greenland for seven weeks this summer to gather measurements of the sea ice, clouds, radiation and aerosols that are affecting the ice melt.

“The reason that we need this mission is because there are a lot of things that we don’t know...