The VERITAS air-and-field expedition to Iceland
The VERITAS air-and-field expedition to Iceland
To profit from the short Icelandic summer, a team of researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), DLR and international participants travelled to the island in the north Atlantic on 31 July 2023 to measure volcanic features of this unique geologic landscape with both young, even recent, and older lava flows from Icelandic volcanos. This photograph was taken near the international airport of Keflavik when the team left for the island's interior, only accessibly with heavy four-wheel-drive vehicles. The expedition is led by Sue Smrekar (centre) from JPL, Principal Investigator of NASA's VERITAS mission to Venus planned for the early 2030s. Absent are the researchers from JPL and DLR's Microwave and Radar Institute, and the pilots of DLR's Flight Experiments Facility, who are supporting the radar campaign from the air with DLR's Dornier 228-212 research aircraft.
