A photo taken by NASA's Earth Observing satellite has resurfaced thanks to a patch of sea ice that resembles the iconic Star Trek logo.
A photo taken by NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite in 2012 has resurfaced thanks to a bright white patch of sea ice that resembles the iconicThe photo was taken hundreds of miles above Foxe Basin, a body of water north of Hudson Bay in Nunavut, Canada when there was record-low Arctic sea ice. That year, 2012, saw the lowest amount of sea ice since records began — a record that still stands to this day.
The structure resembles the arrowhead-shaped badges worn on the officer uniforms of Captain Kirk, Spock, and Jean-Luc Picard — fictional characters from theThe familiar delta-shaped emblem as worn by Spock played by Leonard Nimoy and Captain Kirk played by William Shatner. The Starfleet-styled structure is draped around a group of small, rocky islands, known as the Manning Islands and was likely “caused by snow getting trapped in rough, ridged ice that formed as it ran up against the Manning Islands,” explains Nathan Kurtz, chief scientist of the Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.The photo was taken in the summer when the Arctic sea ice begins to melt.
The satellite that took the image, NASA’s Earth Observing-1 , was launched in November 2000 as part of NASA’s New Millennium Program, which aimed to develop and test advanced technologies for space missions. EO-1 was primarily a technology demonstration mission, designed to test and validate new instruments and approaches for Earth observation that could be used in future satellites.
The Starfleet insignia has been spotted in strange locations before, the iconic swoop has twice shown up on Mars: Once in 2019The Kobayashi Maru of Photography
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