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Operation IceBridge Ensures Optimal Data Transmission to Researchers
02.09.2010
Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne mission to observe changes in polar land and sea ice, will embark on a fourth field season in October. Over the course of 2009, 41 flights were carried out over a distance of roughly 230 000km. Working with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)…
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NASA’s ICESat Satellite Has Re-entered Earth’s Atmosphere after Final Successful Scientific Mission
31.08.2010
NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation (ICESat) satellite was decommissioned after successfully completing its last scientific mission earlier this year and re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Monday, August 30th. Debris from the ICESat spacecraft fell to Earth in the Barents Sea at approximately 5:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (09:00 GMT).
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CO2 Release from Oceans at End of Last Ice Age Occured at Regional, Not Global Scale, New Study Says
26.08.2010
In a recent paper published in the journal Nature, a team of scientists lead by Rutgers Univsersity in New Jersey suggest that a massive carbon dioxide escape from the oceans could have occurred over a 1,000 year period after the end of the last glaciation. The paper shows that the…
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First CryoSat-2 Data Released to Select Scientists
22.07.2010
The first data from CryoSat-2, launched three months ago by the European Space Agency (ESA), were released to a select group of 150 scientists from approximately 40 research institutes around the world. These select scientists had agreed to use this data to help fine-tune the satellite before its data is…
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Cryosat-2 Surpassing Expectations Halfway through Commissioning Phase
05.07.2010
Halfway through its commissioning phase, the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 satellite is “in very good shape, exceeding in-orbit specifications,” declared Prof. Duncan Wingham, Lead Investigator for the CryoSat mission at ESA's Living Planet Symposium in Bergen, Norway.
