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Monitoring: the Spacecraft - Title Cryosat - Satellite for
Global Ice Monitoring: the Spacecraft - Released 02/09/2005 -
Language English - Footage Type Cryosat - ESA's satellite for
global ice monitoring Are the polar caps melting or not? When
watching these images, the answer to this question looks quite
easy, but until now, no accurate and reliable data of the
variation of ice masses is available for the Arctic sea ice and
the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Since ice plays such an
important role in the regulation of the Earth's global climate
and sea-level change, it is crucial to know about any change in
the thickness of marine and continental ice cover During its
three year lifetime, ESA's CryoSat satellite will shed light on
of the most important impacts of climate change on our planet.
With a mass of 700 kilograms, CryoSat is a relatively small but
very sophisticated satellite. The SIRAL radar altimeter is the
key instrument to be carrie