ICESat has provided a critical look at ice thickness at Earth's polar regions over the course of its seven-year life. That mission has now ended.
ICESat has provided a critical look at ice thickness at Earth's polar regions over the course of its seven-year life. That mission has now ended.
02.24.10 - ICESat has provided a critical look at ice thickness at Earth's polar regions over the course of its seven-year life. That mission is now coming to an end.
10.19.06 - NASA scientists have found that ice losses now far surpass ice gains in the shrinking Greenland ice sheet.
03.08.06 - NASA scientists confirm climate warming is changing how much water remains locked in Earth's largest storehouse of ice and snow.
12.05.05 - Thanks to satellites, NASA has the best maps to help researchers get around the huge land of ice and snow.
11.18.05 - ICESat fired its one billionth laser shot earthward to obtain elevations from objects on the land, sea and in the air.
12.13.04 - Investigating ice, glaciers, forests, rivers, clouds and pollutants
09.30.04 - Changes in glacier flow surprises researchers.
12.09.03 - Satellite views of Earth's polar ice sheets, clouds, mountains, and forestlands are helping scientists understand how life on Earth is affected by changing climate.
10.06.03 - The principal mission of ICESat is to measure the surface elevation of the large ice sheets covering Antarctica and Greenland.
ICESat will collect data about the Earth using the lasers on the GLAS instrument.
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