Coldest Map In The World
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- Written by:
- Patrick Lynch
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- Scientific consulting by:
- Bob Bindschadler
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We've grown used to seeing landscapes from above. The terrain that early explorers once took years to cross we now conquer during a routine business flight on a weekday morning. Yet there remain places too remote and too rugged for most to reach. This is Antarctica, where ice sheets stretch across the eastern part of the continent like a frozen Great Plains, and mountains that would be at home in the Rockies crop up in nearly snow-free, dry regions. Otherwise experienced by only a small group of scientists and polar travelers, NASA, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the British Antarctic Survey, has made Antarctica accessible to all by piecing together Landsat 7 satellite images to create a mosaic that represents the first true-color, high-resolution map of the continent. Even without crampons and an ice ax, you can now explore one of the world's most brutal environments in this flyover view of Antarctica.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey
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Animator
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
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Writer
- Patrick Lynch (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
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Video editor
- Michelle Williams (UMBC)
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Scientist
- Bob Bindschadler (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
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Producers
- Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
- Jefferson Beck (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Michelle Williams (UMBC)
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Narrator
- Laura Motel (UMBC)