Title: CryoSat
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.
Subjects: Artificial satellites in earth sciences, Earth resources technology satellites, CryoSat (Artificial satellite)