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NASA's ICESat to be fitted with laser for launch NASA-GSFC NEWS RELEASE Posted: June 20, 2002
The instrument left NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., June 13 on its journey to Colorado. ICESat will use lasers that were designed and built by Goddard. The benchmark Earth Observing System mission will achieve Earth Science Enterprise requirements for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, vegetation structure and land topography. ICESat will provide scientists with vital information about cloud properties, which are not otherwise available from passive sensors, especially high ice clouds that are common over polar areas. ICESat will collect data to correlate the rise or fall of the world's sea level to the respective loss or accumulation of the ice volume covering Antarctica and Greenland.
GLAS, the first laser-ranging instrument for continuous global observations of Earth, will make unique observations as an important component of the Earth Science Enterprise climate change program. ICESat is scheduled to launch this December aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. |
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