Antarctica and Greenland lost thousands of gigatons of ice in the last 16 years, according to results from a new NASA mission published Thursday. Scientists reported that the two land masses have lost 5,000 gigatons of ice in that time period. Who is enough to feel like Michigan? A gigaton is equal to a billion metric tons. The data was measured by Iceat 2, a NASA satellite launched in 2018 following a mass mission from Iceat that gathered data from 2003 to 2009. Using information from both missions, researchers calculated the scale of melting. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in OAA said last week that Arctic ice reached its second lowest extent on the record in 2019. In OAA also said earlier this month that they are projecting 2020 will be the hottest year on record. Surpassing a record set in 2016. The loss in Arctic ice is expected to result in rising sea levels globally. It will risk us eventually here even though it's really for away and hard to think about. Said Helen Flaker, a glacierologist with the script in a state of oceanography at the University of California, San Diego told NPR. How much ice we are going to loss and how quickly we are going to loss it is a really key thing that needs to be understand so that we can plan. Thank you for watching. Please subscribe for updates.