CryoSat
Subtitle: ESA's ice mission
By: European Space Agency
Series: SP -- 1292; ESA SP -- 1292
Publisher: ESA Publications Division
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Artificial satellites in earth sciences; Earth resources technology satellites; CryoSat (Artificial satellite)
Other titles: ESA's ice mission
Description: CryoSat is the first of ESA's Earth Explorers, science missions focused on specific issues of our planetary environment. CryoSat's focus is polar ice. Using an innovative multi-mode radar altimeter it will measure fluctuations in land ice sheet height and sea-ice thickness to an unprecedented accuracy during a three-year period.
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