NASA satellites detect unexpected ice loss in East Antarctica
Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 00:21
in Astronomy & Space
Using gravity measurement data from the NASA/German Aerospace Center's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission, a team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin has found that the East Antarctic ice sheet-home to about 90 percent of Earth's solid fresh water and previously considered stable-may have begun to lose ice.