ESA Portal - New ice thickness map of the Arctic unveiled

ESA Portal - New ice thickness map of the Arctic unveiled:

"However, to understand fully how climate change is affecting the fragile polar regions, there is a need to determine exactly how the thickness of the ice is changing.


ESA's ice mission
To answer this question, a group of scientists together with Prof. Duncan Wingham from University College London proposed the CryoSat mission to ESA in 1998. The loss of the original CryoSat satellite in 2005 as a result of a launch failure has unfortunately made this a longer than normal wait."
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