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- proper noun A satellite designed to measure
ice sheet mass balance,cloud andaerosol heights, as well as landtopography andvegetation characteristics
Etymologies
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From space, NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite, known as ICESat, is completing a seasonal survey of the world's ice sheets to gauge how and where they are changing.
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From space, NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite, known as ICESat, is completing a seasonal survey of the world's ice sheets to gauge how and where they are changing.
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Meanwhile, NASA must rely on limited aircraft surveillance to measure ice sheet thickness in the cryosphere - the Earth's surface where water is in solid form, including sea ice, glaciers and the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica - since its Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite ICESat failed nearly a year ago.
Aging and failed satellites jeopardize efforts to collect data on climate change Emmarie Huetteman 2011
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Meanwhile, NASA must rely on limited aircraft surveillance to measure ice sheet thickness in the cryosphere - the Earth's surface where water is in solid form, including sea ice, glaciers and the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica - since its Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite ICESat failed nearly a year ago.
Aging and failed satellites jeopardize efforts to collect data on climate change Emmarie Huetteman 2011
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Meanwhile, NASA must rely on limited aircraft surveillance to measure ice sheet thickness in the cryosphere - the Earth's surface where water is in solid form, including sea ice, glaciers and the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica - since its Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite ICESat failed nearly a year ago.
Aging and failed satellites jeopardize efforts to collect data on climate change Emmarie Huetteman 2011
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Meanwhile, NASA must rely on limited aircraft surveillance to measure ice sheet thickness in the cryosphere - the Earth's surface where water is in solid form, including sea ice, glaciers and the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica - since its Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite ICESat failed nearly a year ago.
Aging and failed satellites jeopardize efforts to collect data on climate change Emmarie Huetteman 2011
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The jointly operated sensors that would capture the 'best' images Landsat (ok jointly run with USGS) and ICESat are limping along.
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ICESat satellite and the start date for the next around 2016.
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Orbital Selected By NASA For ICESat-2 Earth Science Satellite Program - Page 2 From 2003 to 2010, the original ICESat mission provided multi-year elevation data needed to determine ice sheet mass balances as well as cloud property information, especially for stratospheric clouds common over polar areas.
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The work - based on data collected by NASA's ICESat, Terra, and Aqua satellites - should help scientists build an inventory of how much carbon the world's forests store and how fast that carbon cycles through ecosystems and back into the atmosphere.
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