ICESat
NASA Model Shows Greenland’s Ice Sheet Will Disappear Over the Next 1000 Years, Raising Sea Levels by 7 Meters
Great news! Humankind's greatest-ever engineering project is nearing completion. Soon we will have warmed the Earth enough to get rid…
6 years ago
Antarctica has a Huge Mantle Plume Beneath it, Which Might Explain Why its Ice Sheet is so Unstable
A new study led by researchers from NASA JPL has provided compelling evidence for the existence of a mantle plume…
7 years ago
What Does Antarctica Look Like Under the Ice?
Although it sits isolated at the "bottom of the world" Antarctica is one of the most influential continents on Earth,…
12 years ago
NASA’s Operation IceBridge Surveys Greenland and Earth’s Polar Ice Sheets
NASA's Operation IceBridge has begun the 2013 research season of Ice Science flights in Greenland and the Arctic to survey…
12 years ago
Antarctica’s Ice Being Eaten Away From Below
Data collected from a NASA ice-watching satellite reveal that the vast ice shelves extending from the shores of western Antarctica…
13 years ago
Students Send ICESat to a Fiery Deorbit Death
[/caption] NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation (ICESat) mission is now on ice, so to speak, or perhaps we should…
14 years ago