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Welcome to the LIMA II Quest Challenge!
Become a scientist and propose Antarctic Research

 photo mosaic of Antarctica

The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is the first-ever true-color high-resolution satellite view of the Antarctic continent enabling everyone to see Antarctica as it appears in real life. This new view of Antarctica will revolutionize Antarctica research. The LIMA web site is designed as part of the International Polar Year to familiarize people with Antarctica, to explore the richness of its features, to learn about why Antarctica matters to us all, and to explain and demonstrate how scientists use satellite imagery to study the continent.

During this challenge, you will become the scientists who study the features on Antarctica, as never seen before, and using a major scientific tool: curiosity, you will develop a research question and argue the value of studying a feature based on this new view of Antarctica.

Educators' Guide available online.


Calendar of Events

September 2008

Registration begins!

After you have registered for the LIMA Quest Challenge you will receive an email giving you information on how to proceed. Below you may see the anticipated schedule of events so you can mark your calendar. Happy to have you on board!

See the growing background sources of information to help with your research and meet the people at LIMA at our growing list of online bios.

Wednesday
October 1
10:00 a.m. Pacific
1:00 p.m. Eastern
1700 GMT
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Live Webcast!

• Challenge begins!
Educators' Guide available online
Join us for the opening webcast
Meet your LIMA Experts by reading their bios online and then join us for a live webcast in which LIMA experts describe what they are asking your students to do for this challenge.

November 5          Deadline for preliminary proposals

November 19  
10:00 a.m. Pacific
1:00 p.m. Eastern
1700 GMT

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Live Webchat

Web Chat commenting on proposals. This is a moderated web chat. Selected questions are forwarded to our experts who will answer them live on the web. 

November 26        

Deadline for final proposals

Wednesday, December 3
10:00 a.m. Pacific
1:00 p.m. Eastern

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Live Webcast!


Final Webcast: Watch this live webcast featuring expert comments on student/scientist proposals.

December 3 to end of calendar year 2008:

Closing surveys

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Editor: Linda Conrad
NASA Official: Liza Coe
Last Updated: September 2008


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