Photon Phrightday: Mount Terror

On this Photon Phrightday, Dr. Tom Neumann takes a look at a pass from ICESat-2 over the large shield volcano, Mount Terror, on Ross Island, Antarctica.

NASA’s ICESat-2 mission measures the height of land, ice, and water by bouncing photons of light off their surfaces and timing how long it takes them to return to the spacecraft.

Take a closer look at this fearful photon cloud...if you dare!

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

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Thomas Neumann (NASA GSFC)
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