ICESat-2 Ground Track

  • Released Tuesday, August 11, 2020
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This is a long, slow visualization showing one complete ICESat-2 ground track over the course of 6 minutes.

ICESat-2 (short for Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite -2), launched Sept. 15, 2018, uses lasers and a very precise detection instrument to measure the elevation of Earth’s surface. ICESat-2 is in a polar orbit which provides high coverage near the poles where ice elevations are changing relatively quickly. This visualization shows one complete orbit ground track.

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This page was originally published on Tuesday, August 11, 2020.
This page was last updated on Monday, January 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM EST.

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