International Polar Year From the International Space Station

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Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agufmed13a..08e&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #ED13A-08

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

0310 Airglow And Aurora, 0732 Icebergs, 0815 Informal Education, 0850 Geoscience Education Research, 1640 Remote Sensing (1855)

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Since early March 2007, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have been observing and photographing high latitude features in support of researchers conducting science associated with the International Polar Year (IPY). Seeing Earth through the eyes of an astronaut is exciting to students, and the IPY images provide easily interpretable data that are valuable for visualizing polar phenomena. To make the astronaut IPY observations available to a global audience - including scientists, classrooms and the general public - we post high quality photographs of polar features like icebergs, aurora, polar mesospheric clouds and volcanoes to an IPY website maintained by the NASA Johnson Crew Earth Observations Program at the NASA Johnson Space Center. All the imagery is cataloged and searchable in the database at the same website. The website allows users to define search parameters, create subsets of imagery data, and download the imagery and associated data free of charge. Roughly 1000 images of high latitude features have been acquired since the beginning of the 2007-2009 IPY, including the break-up of iceberg A22A in the south Atlantic Ocean, the occurrence of polar mesospheric clouds across northern Eurasia, and the eruption of Shiveluch volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. These images contribute to the nearly 40,000 images of high latitude regions that have been photographed from spacecraft since the Apollo and Skylab Programs of the 1960s-1970s.

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