Living Planet: CryoSat

URL: http://www.esa.int/esaLP/LPcryosat.html

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This is an overview of the CryoSat program, a three-year radar altimetry mission by the European Space Agency (ESA), scheduled for launch in September 2005. The mission will measure variations in the thickness of the Earth's continental ice sheets and marine ice cover in an effort to determine whether arctic ice is thinning due to global warming. Topics include an introduction to the mission, news articles, science objectives, data products, and links to CryoSat publications.

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Subject keyword(s)	Astronomy, Climatology, Cryology, Earth science, Geoscience, Meteorology, Physical sciences, Science, Space Science, Space sciences, Technology
Grade level	Informal Education
Resource type	Reference Material, Text
Resource format	text, text/html
Rights	Copyright 2000 - 2004 European Space Agency. All rights reserved.

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ESA Observing the Earth Living Planet Earth Explorers CryoSat-2     ESA's ice mission Science OverviewObjectives Disciplines Sea iceIce sheetsPolar climate Mission OverviewPayloadSatelliteGround segment Data OverviewValidation Publications Publications ServicesCalendarSubscribeContact us Search All Observing the Earth             Ice data at your fingertips   4 January 2012   Discover ESA’s ice mission, track it in real time and obtain the latest measurements with the new CryoSat application. CryoSat is measuring the thickness of polar sea ice and monitoring changes in the ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica. Full story CryoSat ice satellite rides new waves   22 December 2011   ESA’s CryoSat mission has been gathering detailed information on the thickness of Earth’s ice since its launch in 2010. Through international collaboration, this state-of-the-art mission is soon to be used to monitor conditions at sea for marine forecasting. Full story Antarctic expedition checks CryoSat down-under   9 December 2011   Next week marks 100 years since Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole. As a team of scientists brave the Antarctic to validate data from ESA’s CryoSat mission, it’s hard to imagine what these first intrepid explorers would have thought of today’s advances in polar science. Full story More News CryoSat rocking and rollingGreenland and the Netherlands look to CryoSat for answers on iceNew ice thickness map of the Arctic unveiledCryoSat Greenland camp receives royal guestESA–NASA collaboration furthers sea-ice research News Archive   CryoSat at Paris Air & Space Show CryoSat Launch event replay Track CryoSat-2 Access CryoSat data CryoSat ice blog CryoSat App CryoSatApp (iPad)CryoSatApp (iPhone) CEOS EO Handbook          Copyright 2000 - 2012 © European Space Agency. All rights reserved.