Cracking Icy Secrets of New Penguin Colonies

Populations of gentoo penguins are growing, and remote sensing data are helping scientists figure out why.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using ICESat-2 data and colony estimates courtesy of Michael Wethington/Stony Brook University. Photo by Yvette Zhang on Unsplash. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published September 24, 2020
Data acquired 2020

Sources:

ICESat-2 > ATLAS

In situ Measurement

Photograph