The remote Danger Islands off the coast of Antarctica are home to a previously undiscovered Supercolony of more than 1.5 million Adélie Penguins, and thanks to a satellite and some drone footage, researchers now know about them.*
A new study published in the open-source journal Scientific Reports this week announced the discovery. It also details the pretty incredible way it was made.*
It all started off with NASA and the USGS' Landsat satellite, tasked with beaming images of our planet from space back to waiting scientists on Earth.