[eo-announce] Earth Observatory: What's New Week of 14 November 2017

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (14 November 2017)
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New Features:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/

* Africa's Great Lake Hanging in the Balance: Scientists Monitor the Rise and Fall of Lake Chad
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/LakeChad/?src=eoa-features
    More than 30 million people in Africa depend on Lake Chad for fresh water. But satellite and ground-based data show that the once-great lake now spans less than a tenth of the area it covered in the 1960s.

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Latest Images:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/

* Connecting the Dots Between Dust, Phytoplankton, and Ice Cores
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=91267&src=eoa-iotd

* Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Fall in China, Rise in India
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=91270&src=eoa-iotd

* Salt Glacier, Zagros Mountains
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=91264&src=eoa-iotd

* An Unusual Angle
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=91258&src=eoa-iotd

* A Gateway to Antarctica
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=91246&src=eoa-iotd

* Ginseng Farms in Northern China
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=91254&src=eoa-iotd

* Haze Blankets Northern India
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=91240&src=eoa-iotd

* Water Shortage in Western Cape
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=91217&src=eoa-iotd

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Recent Blog Posts:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/

Earth Matters
* What A Wonderful World: Pinacate Peaks
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=7857&src=eoa-blogs

* Landsat 8 Thermal Data Ghost-Free After Stray Light Exorcism
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=7966&src=eoa-blogs

Notes from the Field
* The Gravity of Larsen C
  The Operation IceBridge mission flew its suite of airborne instruments over Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf and I caught a first-hand look.
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=9194&src=eoa-blogs

* Raining in the Fog of Carbon Dioxide Chemistry
  Trying to clearly explain the carbonate chemistry of seawater taxes the best in our field.
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=9215&src=eoa-blogs

* Anchoring Ocean Science — Moored Measurements with Steady Humans!
  While ocean moorings are often described as autonomous observing platforms, the human ingenuity required to deploy and recover them demands a steady human with a tight grip.
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=9185&src=eoa-blogs

* Welcome to Ushuaia
  For the first time, Operation IceBridge flights to Antarctica are being staged from Ushuaia, Argentina.
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=9163&src=eoa-blogs

* The Dance of the Atmosphere and Ocean
  PURS-2 continues a legacy of experiments focused on the dance between the atmosphere and ocean.
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=9148&src=eoa-blogs

* The Autonomous Platform Revolution
  There is a robotic revolution going on in oceanography.
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=9135&src=eoa-blogs

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