AWARE McMurdo Laser (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

AWARE McMurdo Laser

Caption

A High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) probes clouds and aerosols above the Second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) at McMurdo Station on Ross Island as the aurora australis phenomenon and Milky Way Galaxy illuminate the dark winter skies.

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Photo credit: Joshua Swanson, United States Antarctic Program

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