> Until now, the Southern Ocean region was virtually inaccessible to satellites due to its low temperatures and the complex, ever-changing dynamics of sea ice.
I hate to cast doubt on the veracity of such an interesting story, but this really makes me wonder whether the entire article is just AI garbage.
If you want to understand the challenges of satellites in the Southern Ocean, there's plenty of info about it online.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/105/12/BAMS-...
(I am also non an expert, and I also didn't understand it at first. That's to be expected. The real world is complex and hard to understand.)
Further, I did a search using "challenges of satellites in the Southern Ocean" and found no info, rather than plenty of info.
edit: I eventually found the following link which does seem to discuss some challenges, but does not indicate that they have been solved. It certainly does not support the claim that the region is "inaccessible to satellites".
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15481603.2023.21...