Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/24/2010 3:23:36 AM PST by Paul Pierett
From over 500 kilometres up, as TerraSAR-X looks down on its icy surface, the Antarctic's Nimrod Glacier looks like molten metal. During its flight over the Antarctic, the German Aerospace Centre's (DLR) radar satellite is one of the few that can direct its view over this glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains. Researchers can use these images from space to determine the flow speed of the glacier.
(Excerpt) Read more at dlr.de ...
Part of my answer is there will be glacier activity at the highest latitudes and highest elevations first.
Here we see the Antarctica in an active state. I found another research paper yesterday stating some 100+ glaciers have been active since global cooling began 10 years ago.
Ski resorts at higher elevations are now staying open nearly year round. That was not true a decade ago.
Also noticed is the other affects of a solar minimum that we are now in and, that is, drought and the lost of crops and severe winters and the lost of people and animals.
For about the last 4 years, I have been telling all who will listen; we are entering a new mini ice age. Most thought I was nuts for saying so; it appears I (and many more knowledgeable folk) have been proved correct.
Of course the truly insane AWG cultists are now blaming the cold winter in Europe on the BP oil spill in the Gulf. Utterly amazing.
That, or maybe the shoggoths are moving. Y’know what’s buried down there ....
Seems to me all this could be avoided if we could just get that danged co2 under control.
Everyone needs to slow down their rate of exhaling.
Very Moving!
Agree!
Does the flow appear blurred because it was moving while the photo was taken (real slow shutter speed, I guess)?
No. That is the true appearance of glaciers from a distance. They appear as rivers of ice -- which is precisely what they are.
Though it might be undetectable to the naked eye, glaciers do "flow". The largest glacier in the world -- Byrd Glacier in Antarctica -- moves at the rate of 2-3 meters/day. Some glaciers on Greenland move at the rate of 20-30 meters/day.
The flow is what causes calving of icebergs upon reaching the sea -- they're simply pushed out onto the water by the moving mass of ice behind them.
I don’t know. It is a radar image. You might read up on that and see what the drawbacks are.
Paul
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