Satellite poo trail leads way to Antarctic penguins

SCIENTISTS have tracked down previously undiscovered colonies of Antarctic emperor penguins after spotting trails of their droppings on satellite pictures.

Zooming in on individual penguins is beyond current satellite imagery, but the tell-tale reddish-brown stains on the polar ice helped hone in on large groups of the black and white flightless birds.

The Australian 2 Jun 2009

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This story is NOT about Penguin Poo,
but rather at the technology used, and the politics involved.

During the War in Iraq, US Satellites could read the number plates of trucks delivering fuel, headlines from newspapers can be read....

So where's Osama bin Laden ??? !!! ???

There always has to be a 'bad guy'.