ESA's CryoSat-2 and NASA's DC-8 star in Arctic cooperation

Friday, April 23, 2010 - 09:01 in Astronomy & Space

Taking advantage of NASA's 'Operation Ice Bridge' campaign, measurements of Arctic sea ice have been acquired from an aircraft flying under CryoSat-2's orbital path. These measurements offer an early opportunity to check the quality of the newly launched CryoSat-2 satellite data over sea ice.

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