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17 December 2013
NSIDC wins dark data rescue award
An NSIDC project that produced the earliest satellite maps of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice has been given the International Data Rescue Award in the Geosciences.
9 December 2013
Landsat 8 helps unveil coldest place on Earth
NSIDC scientists recently recorded the lowest temperatures on Earth at a desolate and remote ice plateau in East Antarctica, trumping a record set in 1983 and uncovering a new puzzle about the ice-covered continent.
5 December 2013
Sensing Our Planet 2013 released
NASA Earth data centers have released Sensing Our Planet 2013, a collection of in-depth science stories that reveal the surprising ways that scientists use satellite data to study our planet.
2 December 2013
NSIDC science at AGU highlights Landsat 8, Arctic sea ice, Antarctic ice shelves, snow cover, and permafrost carbon feedback
NSIDC scientists will present new research on Arctic sea ice, Antarctic ice shelf disintegration, snow cover measurement, glaciers in High Asia’s Himalaya-Karakoram region, and new findings in Antarctica’s cold regions using the recently-launched Landsat 8 at next week’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California.
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