Photon Phriday
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
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Photon Phrightday: Pholcanoes
Music: "Murder Victim," "City of Ghosts," Universal Production Music
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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
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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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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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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
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Producers
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA)
- Kate Ramsayer (Telophase)
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Writer
- Kate Ramsayer (Telophase)
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Scientists
- Thomas A. Neumann (NASA/GSFC)
- Carrie Vuyovich (NASA/GSFC)
- Tyler C. Sutterley (University of Washington)
- Ivona Cetinic (USRA)
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Interviewees
- Alex S. Gardner (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- Lori Magruder (University of Texas at Austin)
- Thomas A. Neumann (NASA/GSFC)
- Nathan T. Kurtz (NASA/GSFC)
- Benjamin E. Smith (University of Washington Applied Physics Lab Polar Science Center)
- James Garvin (NASA, Chief Scientist Goddard)
- Steve Palm (NASA/GSFC)
- Amy Neuenschwander (University of Texas at Austin)
- Kelly Brunt (Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center/University of Maryland)
- Eric A Sproles (Montana State University)
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Project support
- Kaitlin Harbeck (SGT)
- Aimée C Gibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Christine E. Sadlik (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Videographer
- Jefferson Beck (USRA)
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Animators
- Bailee DesRocher (USRA)
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA)
- Chris Burns (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Visualizers
- Kel Elkins (USRA)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Editor
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA)
Release date
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.