{"id":23054,"date":"2011-06-22T07:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T05:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=23054"},"modified":"2011-06-22T07:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T05:30:36","slug":"new-arctic-ice-thickness-map-is-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/new-arctic-ice-thickness-map-is-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"New Arctic Ice Thickness Map is Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CryoSat\u2019s exceptionally detailed data have been used to generate this map of sea-ice thickness in the Arctic. Data from January and February this year have been used to show the thickness of the ice as it approaches its annual maximum. Thanks to CryoSat\u2019s orbit, ice thickness close to the North Pole can be seen for the first time. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1998 a group of scientists proposed a mission known as CryoSat to study the planet\u2019s poles. In 2005 the first satellite was lost due to a launch failure. However, at the 2011 Paris Air and Space Show, the first map of sea-ice thickness from ESA\u2019s CryoSat mission was revealed, and has gone far beyond what was expected.<\/p>\n

CryoSat travels at just over 700 kilometres above the surface and reaches unprecedented latitudes of 88\u00ba as it traverses the planet, as can be seen in the video. The satellite has spent the last 7 months studying the changes in the thickness of the polar ice caps, providing further data on a subject which has already been revealed to be dire.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/vimeo.com\/25441211<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cA new mission is always risky. There’s quite a long wait and then everyone gets to see if it really can deliver,\u201d said Professor Duncan Wingham from University College London. \u201cWhat’s really nice about these results is that they show not only that the hardware is really excellent \u2013 which we already knew \u2013 but that it can deliver the geophysical information we need too. It’s a credit to the teams at ESA and UCL who have worked really hard and I’m very happy with these new results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wingham, along with Volker Liebig, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes and Ren\u00e9 Forsberg from the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark, presented the map at the Le Bourget air and space show on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

According to the ESA, \u201cCryoSat measures the height of the sea ice above the water line, known as the freeboard, to calculate the thickness.\u201d The measurements which provided the first map were gathered between January and February of 2011, and provided data which were much more detailed than had originally been conceived for the mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis major result comes just one year after launch,\u201d said Professor Liebig. \u201cIt is another important step towards achieving one of the primary objectives of the mission; namely, to determine how much the sea ice in the Arctic is thinning in response to a changing climate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very satisfying to see these exciting results,\u201d said ESA\u2019s Richard Francis, who was the CryoSat-2 Project Manager during its development. \u201cIt has taken about ten years to convert the initial proposal into a flying mission: ten years of hard work and dedication from a core team of less than a hundred people, ably assisted with crucial expertise from a few hundred more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese first results are very exciting as we begin to see the mission\u2019s potential realised,\u201d ESA\u2019s CryoSat Mission Manager, Tommaso Parrinello, added. \u201cThe coming months will be dedicated to completing the picture to gain better insight into how polar ice is changing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: European Space Agency<\/a><\/p>\n

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