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Finding Meteorite Hotspots in Antarctica

As many as 300,000 meteorites await discovery atop the continent’s ice, and now scientists have a map showing where to look.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and data courtesy of Tollenaar, V., et al. (2022). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published March 9, 2022

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Landsat 8 > OLI
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