The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, is NASA's most technologically advanced ice-monitoring spacecraft to date. Capable of measuring changes in ice thickness, forest growth and ...

Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, a team of scientists including glaciologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of ...

University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) professionals and students have completed their role operating the NASA ICESat mission, one of five missions ...

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Oct. 4 (UPI) --NASA's polar-orbiting probe IceSat-2 fired its laser instrument for the first time this week, yielding the satellite's first height measurement. The feat happened as IceSat-2 passed ...

With each pass of the ICESat-2 satellite, the mission is adding to datasets tracking Earth's rapidly changing ice. Less than three months into its mission, NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation ...

NASA officials hope to launch as early as October 2015 the second Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-2) as part of a $650 million project to measure changes in polar ice sheets and sea ...

Sept. 15 (UPI) --NASA's newest ice-measuring satellite was launched into orbit around Earth's poles on Saturday morning aboard the last flight of United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. ICESat-2 was ...

A key focus for IceSat will be looking for changes in elevation over Antarctica and Greenland One of the most powerful Earth observation tools ever put in orbit is now gathering data about the planet.