Cryosat 2 mapping the ice thickness…

Succesfull launch on the 8th of April 2010
of satellite
Cryosat 2 which will be monitoring
the thickness of the ice…

ESA’s Earth Explorer CryoSat mission, launched on 8 April 2010, is
dedicated to precise monitoring of the changes in the thickness of marine ice
floating in the polar oceans and variations in the thickness of the vast ice
sheets that overlie Greenland and Antarctica. From an altitude of just over 700
km and reaching latitudes of 88°, the CryoSat-2 satellite will monitor precise
changes in the thickness of the polar ice sheets and floating sea ice. CryoSat’s
original objective was to determine if there was a trend towards diminishing ice
cover. There now seems little doubt that there are indeed trends – the challenge
now is to characterise them… further info
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Cryosat Brochure 2010 – GO
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