SVS Tapes

Title: RADARSAT's Antarctica

Abstract: For 18 days during the Southern Hemisphere spring of 1997, a NASA-launched Canadian satellite called RADARSAT collected pieces of a puzzle that will help scientists study the most remote and inaccessible part of the Earth --Antarctica. Scientists now have the puzzle pieces put together, forming the first high-resolution radar map of the mysterious frozen continent. With detail to the point of picking out a research bungalow on an iceberg, the new map has both answered scientists' questions about the icy continent, and left them scratching their heads about what to make of strange and fascinating features never seen before.

Metadata date: 1999-11-08

Producer: Wade Sisler, Michael Staribon

Trt: 00:49:59:00

Audio: No Audio

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