NASA Satellite Uses Lasers To Help Scientists Understand How Quickly Polar Ice Is Melting
ICESat-2, or Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, can detect changes in the height of ice sheets down to a sixth of an inch — about the width of a pencil.
NASA’s newest Earth-orbiting satellite ICESat-2, or Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, will use laser technology to measure tiny changes in the planet’s solar ice sheets. The data will help climate scientists understand just how quickly that ice is melting amid rising global temperatures.
‘s Lisa Mullins talks with (), a professor of glaciology at the Scripps
