New Lakes Discovered Under Antarctic Ice with NASA's ICESat-2
Hundreds of meltwater lakes hide deep beneath the expanse of Antarctica’s ice sheet. With a powerful laser altimeter system in space, NASA’s Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) is helping scientists "see" under the ice.
For more on the story: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-space-lasers-map-meltwater-lakes-in-antarctica-with-striking-precision
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Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Jefferson Beck (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Writer
- Roberto Molar Candanosa (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Visualizers
- Helen-Nicole Kostis (USRA)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientists
- Matthew R. Siegfried (Colorado School of Mines)
- Helen Amanda Fricker (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego)
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Animator
- Susan Twardy (HTSI)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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This page was originally published on Wednesday, July 7, 2021.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 11:53 PM EDT.