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Cracking Icy Secrets of New Penguin Colonies

Populations of gentoo penguins are growing, and remote sensing data are helping scientists figure out why.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using ICESat-2 data and colony estimates courtesy of Michael Wethington/Stony Brook University. Photo by Yvette Zhang on Unsplash. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published September 24, 2020
Data acquired 2020

Sources:
ICESat-2 > ATLAS
In situ Measurement
Photograph