ICESat-2

Sept. 16, 2018

NASA has launched ICESat-2 mission aboard a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force base in California.

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ICESat-2 is NASA’s most advanced space laser satellite with the objective of tracking ice loss around the world and improve forecasts of sea level rise as the climate warms.
It will help estimate elevation change in the Greenland and Antarctic sheets.
The preceding mission, ICESat, launched in 2003 and ended in 2009. It revealed that sea ice was thinning, and ice cover was disappearing from coastal areas in Greenland and Antarctica.

Source : The Hindu

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