ICESat First Light Release: A Continuous View of Clouds

  • Released Thursday, May 15, 2003
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The GLAS laser system on ICESat is making unique measurements of the heights of clouds and their global distribution. In addition, ICESat can 'see' the distributions of aerosols from sources such as dust storms and forest fires. This animation shows the distribution of cloud layers as seens from the bird's eye perspective of the ICESat spacecraft.

Animation showing ICESat collecting cloud data.

ICESat collecting cloud data

ICESat collecting cloud data

Video slate image reads "ICESat First Light: A Continuous View of Clouds".

Video slate image reads "ICESat First Light: A Continuous View of Clouds".

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, Canadian Space Agency, RADARSAT International Inc.

This page was originally published on Thursday, May 15, 2003.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.

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