Participants
(left to right): Byrnes, Borg, and Bindschadler and moderator
Gretchen Cook-Anderson. Photo
credit: Peter West, NSF
Nov. 27 • The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica
(LIMA), the first-ever natural-color high-resolution satellite
view of the Antarctic continent was being released today. LIMA will
enable everyone to see Antarctica as it appears in real life.
Participants at the LIMA media briefing were
Ray Byrnes, liaison for satellite missions at the
U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Va.; Scott Borg, director of NSF's
division of Antarctic sciences; and Robert Bindschadler, chief scientist
of the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA Goddard.
Gretchen Cook-Anderson of NASA public affairs moderated
the panel. The press event was held at the NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center.