NASA Will Launch a Laser Into Space Next Month to Track Earth's Melting Ice
By Meghan Bartels, Senior Writer, Space.com | August 24, 2018 10:59am ET
NASA is preparing to launch a cutting-edge, laser-armed satellite that will spend three years studying Earth's changing ice sheets from above.
Called the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), the mission is currently scheduled to launch in mid-September. The satellite will be able to measure the changing thickness of individual patches of ice from season to season, registering increases and decreases as small as a fifth of an inch (half a centimeter).
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