NASA Launching Advanced Laser to Measure Earth’s Changing Ice

Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - 12:10 in Astronomy & Space

Portal origin URL: NASA Launching Advanced Laser to Measure Earth’s Changing IcePortal origin nid: 430994Published: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - 12:43Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Next month, NASA will launch into space the most advanced laser instrument of its kind, beginning a mission to measure – in unprecedented detail – changes in the heights of Earth’s polar ice.Portal image: NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) spacecraft arrives at Vandenberg Air Force Base in CaliforniaScience Categories: Earth

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