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November 18, 2013

NASA Helps Melt Secrets of Great Lakes Ice
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2013
Two scientists from NASA and NOAA have developed a new space-based technique for monitoring the ice cover of the Great Lakes that is so accurate it can identify a narrow channel of open water cut through the ice by an icebreaker - even at night. "In the dark, it's difficult to read a map that's right in front of you," said Son Nghiem of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., one of the developers of the new technique. "Yet we now have a way to use satellite radars almost 500 miles [8 ... read more

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