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  • The Compact Efficiency of New Airborne Science

    The Compact Efficiency of New Airborne Science

    The latest team celebration is around the magnetometer data. Magnetics has evolved quite a bit over the years of geophysical sampling. Lamont scientist Robin Bell recalls when in the 1990s working on a project in West Antarctica that the magnetometer was towed on a winch ~100 meters behind the aircraft – now it is nearly…

  • In One Simple Line of Data You Can Read a Full Story

    In One Simple Line of Data You Can Read a Full Story

    The lines of data are slowly creeping across our Ross Ice Shelf GIS map and with each new line comes an improved understanding of Ross Ice Shelf. What can you learn from a ‘snapshot’ of data? A radar contains a nice story.

  • Unlocking the Secrets of the Ross Ice Shelf

    Unlocking the Secrets of the Ross Ice Shelf

    The Ross Ice Shelf is much like the Rosetta Stone. The historic stone inscribed in three scripts told the same story but in different tongues, so when matched together scholars could decode an ancient language. The Antarctic Rosetta Project also brings together three different “scripts,” each written by an Earth system; the ice, the ocean…

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  • The Compact Efficiency of New Airborne Science

    The Compact Efficiency of New Airborne Science

    The latest team celebration is around the magnetometer data. Magnetics has evolved quite a bit over the years of geophysical sampling. Lamont scientist Robin Bell recalls when in the 1990s working on a project in West Antarctica that the magnetometer was towed on a winch ~100 meters behind the aircraft – now it is nearly…

  • In One Simple Line of Data You Can Read a Full Story

    In One Simple Line of Data You Can Read a Full Story

    The lines of data are slowly creeping across our Ross Ice Shelf GIS map and with each new line comes an improved understanding of Ross Ice Shelf. What can you learn from a ‘snapshot’ of data? A radar contains a nice story.

  • Unlocking the Secrets of the Ross Ice Shelf

    Unlocking the Secrets of the Ross Ice Shelf

    The Ross Ice Shelf is much like the Rosetta Stone. The historic stone inscribed in three scripts told the same story but in different tongues, so when matched together scholars could decode an ancient language. The Antarctic Rosetta Project also brings together three different “scripts,” each written by an Earth system; the ice, the ocean…