A Slice of Ice

  • Released Monday, March 4, 2019
  • Updated Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 11:28AM
  • ID: 13124

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Explore the first data results from the ICESat-2 satellite.

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ICESat-2 captured Antarctica's flat Ross Ice Shelf and steep Queen Maud Mountains - some of which had never been previously measured.

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Over Antarctica's Weddell Sea, sea ice of different thickness and bumpiness is broken up by the cracks between floes, called leads.

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ICESat-2 is on all the time. Over Mexico, it measured tree heights, forest floor, plus the bathymetry of a lagoon and the ocean waves.

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ICESat-2 uses a fast-firing laser to measure the height of Earth's surface.



Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.
Profiles of ice Sheets, sea Ice and forests courtesy of NASA's Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens.



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