Photon Phriday

  • Released Thursday, August 29, 2019
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Photon Phriday is a weekly look at what ICESat-2 is measuring as it orbits the Earth.

PhyTon Phrightday: ICESat-2 and PACE Present Mesodinium rubrum

Music: "Mysterious Green Fluid," Karl Casey @White Bat Audio, "Quantum Phantom," Universal Production Music

Complete transcript available.

Photon Phrightday: Mount Terror, Antarctica

Music: "The Body," Karl Casey @White Bat Audio, "Quantum Phantom," Universal Production Music

Complete transcript available.

Mt. Rainier

Music: "Sea Mist," Universal Production Music

Complete transcript available.

Photon Phrightday: Pholcanoes

Music: "Murder Victim," "City of Ghosts," Universal Production Music

Complete transcript available.

Additional Credits: HTHH island evolution research since 2015 (RRNES supported) by James B. Garvin and Dan Slayback of NASA GSFC

Experimental raft-towed sonar (LOWRANCE) by SEA students and enabled by Columbia Univ. Prof. Vicki Ferrini (Oct. 2019)

Additional HTHH remote sensing from Maxar WorldView and CSA’s Radarsat-2 satellites (since 2015 for HTHH)

Special thanks to Prof. Lori Magruder of UTx (CSR) for processing so adeptly the ICESat-2 lidar bathymetry

Permission by Kingdom of Tonga to conduct research into the evolution of HTHH as Earth’s newest land

Video footage of HTHH from SSV Robert C. Seamans sailing vessel (SEA owned and operated) by Captain Chris Nolan (Oct. 2019 visit)

La Soufrière Eruption, St. Vincent

Music: "Sea Mist," Universal Production Music

Complete transcript available.

Indoor Bathymetry, Germany

Music: "Lost in Space," "Gleam," Universal Production Music

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Moccasin, Montana, SnowEx 2021 Site

Music: "Chrome Mist," Universal Production Music

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Cryo2Ice Arctic Sea Ice

Music: "The Wraith," Universal Production Music

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Clouds of the Dead

Music: "Quantum Phantom," "Fire Breath," "Exopilot," Universal Production Music

MOSAiC Expedition Underflight

Music: "Chrome Mist," Universal Production Music

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Western United States with SnowEx 2020

Music: "Spectral Surfing," Universal Production Music

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Cascade Mountains

Music: "It's Over," Universal Production Music

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Botswana

Music: "Crescent Moon," Universal Production Music

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Transylvanian Alps

Music: "Quantum Phantom," "Exopilot," Universal Production Music

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Gilbert, Arizona

Music: "Neon Rider," "Palm Tree City," Universal Production Music.

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Nares Strait, Arctic Ocean

Music: "Mysterious Feelings," Killer Tracks Music.

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Great Bahama Bank

Music: "Spectral Surfing," Killer Tracks Music

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Mount Everest

Music: "Starlit Entrance," "Oscillator Dreams," Killer Tracks Music

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Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

This page was originally published on Thursday, August 29, 2019.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 10:04 PM EDT.

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