Space Lasers Map Meltwater Lakes

Satellites can “see” Antarctica’s surface deform as basins fill and empty on, within, and under the ice.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and data courtesy of Warner, R.C., et al. (2021). Story by Roberto Molar Candanosa, NASA’s Earth Science News Team, with Mike Carlowicz.

Published July 9, 2021
Data acquired June 9 - September 7, 2019

Sources:

ICESat-2 > ATLAS

Landsat 8 > OLI