ICESat First Light Release: A Continuous View of Clouds
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
Video slate image reads "ICESat First Light: A Continuous View of Clouds".
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio, Canadian Space Agency, RADARSAT International Inc.
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Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- Christopher Shuman (NASA/GSFC)
- Jay Zwally (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
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.
Missions
This page is related to the following missions:Datasets used
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[RADARSAT-1: SAR]
ID: 87Credit: Additional credit goes to Canadian Space Agency, RADARSAT International Inc.
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[Terra: MODIS]
ID: 116 -
L2 Global Cloud Heights for Multi-layer Clouds (GLA09) [ICESat: GLAS]
ID: 327
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