The French space agency (CNES) announces that it will begin using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) CryoSat satellite to provide the international maritime community with nearly real-time data of the world's oceans and their current state.
Though this is not its primary mission, the spacecraft i... |
6 February 2012
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Experts controlling the European Space Agency's (ESA) CryoSat mission are getting ready to start using the satellite for marine forecasting. This is made possible by the fact that its sensitive instruments can detect even tiny variations in wave height, even though it was built to measure sea ice thickness.
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23 December 2011
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Scientists in the Antarctic will mark next week's 100-year anniversary of Roald Amundsen's trip to the South Pole on the field, conducting measurements to validate data sent from orbit by the European Space Agency's (ESA) CryoSat mission.
I cannot stop but wonder how those early explorers must have f... |
9 December 2011
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The European Space Agency (ESA) announces in a new press release that its CryoSat-2 spacecraft has just turned 18 months in Earth's orbit. The satellite is arguably the best satellite ever designed to survey the thickness of ice above Greenland and Antarctica, and is currently operating flawlessly.One of its mos... |
17 October 2011
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At an exhibition designed to emphasize a common interest between Greenland and the Netherlands in understanding how global warming is changing the Arctic, participants heard more about the tremendous contribution that the European Space Agency (ESA) CryoSat mission is bringing to this field of research.The Roots2Shar... |
17 October 2011
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At a presentation that took place today, June 21, at the Paris Air and Space Show, managers for the CryoSat mission presented the satellite's first products. These included its first map of sea ice thickness.Scientists have great expectations of this spacecraft, which is one of the most advanced of its type. The... |
21 June 2011
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Experts with the CryoSat science data validation team have recently begun a new set of investigations in the Arctic. The goal of this campaign is to check that the advanced orbital observatory is functioning properly, and that tis data are reliable.Every new Earth-monitoring satellite that features innovative technol... |
8 April 2011
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Understanding the complex relationships that develop between the world's ice cover and the overall climate has been a goal in science for many years, and the CryoSat mission is a part of the efforts to clear up this mystery. The data the satellite produces have just been made available for all.The European Space... |
1 February 2011
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The European Space Agency (ESA) is proud to announce that the advanced CryoSat ice-measuring satellite has finally begun its operational life on its orbit around the Earth, and that it's now ready to deliver top-quality weather and climate date back to mission controllers. The event was marked by a ceremony that... |
23 November 2010
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As we were telling you a few days ago, the European Space Agency (ESA) is set to launch the most advanced satellite aimed at surveying ice sheets ever deployed. The CryoSat instrument will provide in-depth measurements of slight variations in the thickness of ice sheets on the land it covers, which will allow scienti... |
19 February 2010
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The CryoSat Validation Experiment 2008 will be carried out during a period of three weeks in the northern regions of Greenland and Canada by ESA scientists from Denmark, UK, Germany and Canada, during which time they will collect data regarding the properties of snow and ice covering both the land and sea regions of ... |
12 May 2008
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