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UC San Diego glaciologist to lead NASA mission measuring ice and forests
12 Feb 2026 02:52 GMT
… fieldwork and figure out why.”
NASA has selected Fricker and her … NASA satellite missions before. She leads the science team for the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation … Satellite 2, or ICESat-2, which launched …
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NASA selects two Earth System Explorers missions for continued development
10 Feb 2026 05:54 GMT
… National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that it has … selected for continued development under NASA’s Earth System Explorers … measurements currently provided by NASA’s ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2) and GEDI …
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NASA Downselects STRIVE, EDGE Missions for Earth System Explorers Program
10 Feb 2026 04:15 GMT
NASA said Thursday that it has … the measurements being recorded by NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2 and the … -year concept study, after which NASA would choose two to go …
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NASA Selects Two Earth System Explorers Missions
05 Feb 2026 21:24 GMT
… events and mitigate disasters.
“NASA uses the unique vantage point … administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington. “By understanding … recorded from space by NASA’s ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2) and …
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Tasmanian scientist in NASA mission to track ice with space lasers
07 Feb 2026 04:38 GMT
… than all prior missions combined.
NASA announced on 5 February that … above the Earth.”
“With NASA’s support, we’re able … in the current altimeter on NASA’s ICESat-2.”
Dr Fraser said … altimeter sea ice measurements from ICESat-2, which has been operational …
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Australian scientists are close to the EDGE
10 Feb 2026 04:56 GMT
… the experience gained with NASA’s ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2) and GEDI … compared to the six aboard ICESat-2.
In addition to Dr … .”
Smith was part of the ICESat-2 team, so he’s …
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NASA Mission Creates a New Global Coastal Bathymetry Product
14 Aug 2025 21:27 GMT
… cannot access all locations.
NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission has … derived using data from the ICESat-2 green-wavelength Advanced Topographic … the first processing of the ICESat-2 archive, providing bathymetric measurements …
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Tundra Vegetation to Grow Taller, Greener Through 2100, NASA Study Finds
01 Jul 2025 00:45 GMT
… , and grasses.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Wanmei … points from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) and Landsat … data points from NASA’s ICESat-2. They then … our climate models.”
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ICESat-2 Applications Team Hosts Satellite Bathymetry Workshop
06 Jun 2025 03:15 GMT
… September 15, 2018, the NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission launched from … help stimulate such thinking, the NASA ICESat-2 applications team hosted a … together SDB end-users, including ICESat-2 application developers, satellite …
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From Space to Soil: How NASA Sees Forests
18 Jun 2025 05:01 GMT
NASA uses satellite lidar technology to … ’s forests, key carbon sinks.
NASA uses satellite lidar technology to … the International Space Station, while ICESat-2 fills polar data gaps …