NASA Has All Eyes on Sea Ice

  • Released Thursday, October 3, 2019
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In April, instruments aboard NASA’s Operation IceBridge airborne campaign and the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 succeeded in measuring the same Arctic sea ice at the same time, a tricky feat given the shifting sea ice. Scientists have now analyzed airborne and spaceborne height measurements, and found that the two datasets match almost exactly, demonstrating how precisely ICESat-2 can measure the heights of the sea ice’sbumpy, cracked surface.



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This page was originally published on Thursday, October 3, 2019.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:45 PM EDT.


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