“A controversy is brewing between remote sensing scientists and administrators from NASA and the agency’s international partners. The debate centers around how long the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar system will continue to operate from the International Space Station before the system is decommissioned and left to burn up in the atmosphere.”

GEDI team scientists and researchers from the broader community weigh in.  Read more of the recent feature written by Saima Sidik here.

GEDI (right foreground) is mounted on the space station’s Japanese Experiment Module – Exposed Facility. In the background, an astronaut performs a spacewalk. Credit: Astronaut David Saint-Jacques