News tagged with cryosat
Latest CryoSat result revealed
(Phys.org) -- After nearly a year and a half of operations, CryoSat has yielded its first seasonal variation map of Arctic sea-ice thickness. Results from ESA’s ice mission were presented today at the Royal Society in ...
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Apr 25, 2012 |
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ESA and NASA join forces to measure Arctic sea ice
Marking another remarkable collaborative effort, ESA and NASA met up over the Arctic Ocean this week to perform some carefully coordinated flights directly under CryoSat orbiting above. The data gathered help ...
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Apr 05, 2012 |
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CryoSat ice satellite rides new waves
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s CryoSat mission has been gathering detailed information on the thickness of Earth’s ice since its launch in 2010. Through international collaboration, this state-of-the-art ...
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Dec 23, 2011 |
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Antarctic expedition checks CryoSat down-under
(PhysOrg.com) -- Next week marks 100 years since Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole. As a team of scientists brave the Antarctic to validate data from ESA’s CryoSat mission, it’s hard to imagine ...
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Dec 12, 2011 |
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Via research aircraft instead of dog sled
With dog food and a pack of huskies Dr. Veit Helm would not get far on his Antarctic expeditions. Instead, the geophysicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association conducts ...
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Dec 08, 2011 |
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CryoSat rocking and rolling
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s ice satellite is rolling left and right in orbit to help it continue its precise measurements of the vast ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica.
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Oct 18, 2011 |
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New CryoSat-2 satellite redraws Arctic sea-ice map
Scientists have produced the most extensive map of Arctic sea-ice thickness yet using just two months' worth of data from the European Space Agency's ice mission, CryoSat-2.
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Jun 22, 2011 |
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ESA-NASA collaboration furthers sea-ice research
A carefully executed operation to validate data from CryoSat has shown what can be accomplished when ESA, NASA and others join forces to further our understanding of how the fragile polar environment is responding ...
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Apr 20, 2011 |
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ESA Arctic ice campaign takes off
To guarantee ESA's CryoSat mission is delivering the best data possible, scientists have set out on a major expedition to the Arctic – part of a collaborative effort between ESA and NASA to gather ice ...
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Apr 11, 2011 |
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CryoSat ice data now open to all
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists can now tap into a flow of new data that will help to determine exactly how Earth's ice is changing. This information from ESA's CryoSat mission is set to make a step change in ...
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Feb 01, 2011 |
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ESA's ice mission goes live
With the commissioning of ESA's CryoSat now complete, the mission has been officially transferred to the operations team. This milestone marks the beginning of the satellite’s operational life delivering ...
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Nov 23, 2010 |
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Scientists receive first CryoSat-2 data
(PhysOrg.com) -- A better understanding of how Earth's ice fields are changing has come another step closer as the first data from ESA's ice mission are released to selected scientists around the world for ...
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Jul 20, 2010 |
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CryoSat-2 exceeding expectations
Today, participants at the Living Planet Symposium have been hearing about ESA's most recently launched mission, CryoSat-2. In orbit for almost three months, the satellite is in excellent health with scientists ...
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Jul 01, 2010 |
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Satellite takes a space-eye view of Arctic ice
(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 700 kilometres above Earth, a recently launched satellite is being readied to provide University of Alberta researchers with a new set of eyes for monitoring ice thickness across ...
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Apr 23, 2010 |
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ESA's CryoSat-2 and NASA's DC-8 star in Arctic cooperation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking advantage of NASA's 'Operation Ice Bridge' campaign, measurements of Arctic sea ice have been acquired from an aircraft flying under CryoSat-2's orbital path. These measurements offer ...
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Apr 23, 2010 |
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CryoSat
CryoSat is an ESA programme which will monitor variations in the extent and thickness of polar ice through use of a satellite in low Earth orbit. The information provided about the behaviour of coastal glaciers that drain thinning ice sheets will be key to better predictions of future sea-level rise. The CryoSat-1 spacecraft was lost in a launch failure in 2005, however the programme was resumed with the successful launch of a replacement, CryoSat-2, launched on 8 April 2010.
CryoSat is operated from the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.
For more information about CryoSat, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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