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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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It’s –27 °C, dipping below –40 °C with wind chill—well below the operating temperature of most of the commercial equipment we brought for this expedition. This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018. Our phones, laptops, and cameras are rapidly failing.