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Overview
The European Space Agency (ESA) developed the CryoSat mission to determine variations in the thickness of the Earth's
continental ice sheets and marice ice cover. CryoSat will also provide high-resolution radar altimeter measurements
over the margins of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets to test the prediction that Arctic ice is thinning due to
global warming and to determine to which extent the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are contribution to global
sea level rise.
The mission will also continue the time-series of Antarctic and Greenland elevation change provided by the ESA's Earth
Remote Sensing (ERS) and ENVISAT satellite altimeters.
Cryosat Latest News (08/09/2005):
Cryosat satellite lost due to launch failure!
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