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This Mosaic Of Satellite Images Shows Antarctica Like Never Before
2014-09-02 04:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gizmodo: The picture above shows a top-down view of Antarctica, the freezing southern end of our planet. Except that it's not a single picture. It's a mosaic of 3,150 satellite images mashed together to form one giant image. The images, which were created by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, which manages the RADARSAT-2 satellite on behalf of the Canadian Space Agency. They're hosted by the Canadian Cryospheric Information Network, at the University of Waterloo, which maintains the Polar Data Catalogue,...
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