Super cool to come across this Vantor (formerly Maxar) WorldView image of the NISAR (NASA - ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite in orbit. A satellite taking a picture of a satellite – very meta... 🛰️

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Just as Istanbul Bridge departs China for the UK via the Northern Sea Route, I was excited to be interviewed for the Weekly Biz cover story on #Arctic #shipping in Chosun Ilbo, South Korea's largest newspaper. Some excellent infographics, too.

www.chosun.com/economy/week... #NorthernSeaRoute

How can we prevent and mitigate space debris? In a new comment for Communications Engineering @natureportfolio.nature.com, I offer a few targeted interventions across the satellite lifecycle. 🛰️

rdcu.be/enJUS 🧪 #satellites #space #spacedebris

someone went crazy with the z-factor on this map of the #Arctic shown at the #Kirkenes Conference 🧪

Are you thinking about the exploration, exploitation, and enclosure of outer space in critical or creative ways? Participate in our session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham (25-29 Aug) on exogeographies!

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Eye-catching pictorial essays by Antonio Petrucelli for LIFE Magazine in 1960 depicting the #Arctic at the end of the last Ice Age and #Antarctica wracked by windstorms.

The paintings conveyed findings from the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year.

Source: books.google.com/books?id=4k0...

The Polar Geography Specialty Group of the AAG @geographers.bsky.social is organizing two student competitions before the annual conference in Detroit this March.

Spread the word to students in polar geography – the deadlines are fast approaching!

More info: lnkd.in/gCAzSXHN #Arctic #phdlife

getting ambitious are we

Interesting map of fisheries production in the Soviet Far East (1956-1953). During this period, the Soviet Union sure caught a lot of creatures from the deep sea. It also sent a satellite into orbit.

Source: US Department of the Interior (1964)

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so much for November Rain – so stoked that the stoke is back on in the Pacific Northwest! ❄️ awesome opening weekend with tons of fresh pow at Crystal, and it's not even Thanksgiving 🙏 #skiing

What a cool funded PhD opportunity at Open Univresity on the "icy shells of other icy ocean worlds" – at the frosty intersection of the cryosphere and outer space!

More info: tinyurl.com/yw56bzbt

An interesting map of the coverage provided by the five locations in the U.S. Solid State Phased Array Radar System. Would love to photograph the massive radars at these sites and put together some sort of exhibit.

A radioactive cathedral under the ice. In 1957, the U.S. Army built #CampCentury. The 3-km network of 26 trenches through the #Greenland Ice Sheet had a theatre, chapel, accommodations, and labs, all heated and electrified by a nuclear reactor, whose radioactive waste sits frozen the ice today.

A US amphibious assault ship pauses from moving cargo to moving an iceberg.

Source: www.coldwarvault.com/blog/2019/5/...

reading about sounding rockets and how they are used to study the #aurora. came across this NASA photo of "colorful clouds formed by vapors from the two AZURE rockets," which allow scientists to measure auroral winds. wild stuff

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