#PhotonPhriday looks at how ICESat-2 measures Earth – from Antarctic dunes to the Bahamas to Greenland’s glaciers.

Locations of Photon Friday Features

Disko Bay, Greenland

Pine Island Glacier

Grand Canyon, AZ

Nantucket, MA

Jakobshavn, Greenland

Yosemite Valley, CA

Crane Glacier, Antarctica

Cape Canaveral, FL

Crater Lake, OR

Mount Everest, Nepal

West Central Greenland Meltponds

Los Angeles, CA

Great Bahama Bank

Dunes in Morocco; Megadunes in Antarctica

Nares Strait, Greenland

Gilbert, AZ

Nordenskiold Glacier, Greenland

Sequoia National Park, CA

Lake Mead, NV

Denali, AK

Rhine, France

Norwegian fjords

Transylvanian Alps

French Polynesian atolls

Forests of Botswana

Smoke clouds from Sonoma Fires

Black Forest (Germany), Black Sea (Istanbul), Black Canyon (Gunnison, CO)

San Francisco, CA

Cascade Mountains, Washington

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