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Samstag, 25. Juni 2011

European Space Agency Produces New Thickness Map

Arctic sea-ice thickness 2011

The first map of sea-ice thickness from ESA’s CryoSat mission was revealed on 21 June. From an altitude of just over 700 km and reaching unprecedented latitudes of 88º, CryoSat spent the last seven months delivering precise measurements to study changes in the thickness of Earth’s ice by measuring the height of the sea ice above the water line to calculate.




 

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