ESA's CryoSat mission (@esa

ESA's CryoSat mission

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ESA's CryoSat mission

@esa_cryosat

@esa's ice mission, #CryoSat. An #EarthExplorer satellite monitoring polar sea ice and changes in the ice sheets over Greenland and Antarctica.

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ESA's CryoSat mission
@esa_cryosat
Apr 8
CryoSat is sweet at sixteen 🎂🛰️ Our record-breaking ice mission still boasts one of the best altimeters in the business 💅 “It is one of the most stable altimeters out there, which is impressive after 16 years in orbit..." Happy birthday CryoSat! 🔗earth.esa.int/eogateway/succ…
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ESA's CryoSat mission
@esa_cryosat
Jun 5
🧊 Heritage data uncover glacier surges across Svalbard 🧊 Delve into more than 30 years of satellite radar data, spanning from the early 1990s to the present day. 👉earth.esa.int/eogateway/succ… 📸 Vallåkrabreen catchment in Svalbard / Mannerfelt
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ESA's Swarm mission
@esa_swarm
Jun 1
🧲 Magnetic Monday 🧲 In 2010, liquid iron in Earth's molten outer core unexpectedly changed direction deep beneath the Pacific Ocean... Satellites, including Swarm and @esa_cryosat, are investigating what is still a bit of a mystery! 👉esa.int/Applications/O…
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ESA's EarthCARE mission
@esa_earthcare
May 28
Happy second space birthday, EarthCARE! 🚀🎂 To celebrate, here are five incredible insights from our second year in orbit 🌀 earth.esa.int/eogateway/succ…
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ESA's CryoSat mission
@esa_cryosat
May 19
ESA's Earth Explorers are now on LinkedIn! Give us a follow there for more on all our pioneering science missions for Earth. 👉linkedin.com/showcase/esa-e…
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ESA's EarthCARE mission
@esa_earthcare
May 13
EarthCARE captures the evolution of marine cold-air outbreak clouds 🥶☁️ Our latest image of the month is from Jiseob Kim of @mcgillu. Zoom into the cloud structure, microphysics, and vertical air motions of MCAO clouds for the first time from space. 🔗earth.esa.int/eogateway/succ…
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ESA's CryoSat mission reposted
ESA's Swarm mission
@esa_swarm
May 4
🧲 Magnetic Monday 🧲 Geomagnetic night vision in birds?! 🐦‍⬛🤖🔦 Swarm really does cover everything 😍💅 🔗sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🖼️ Sedat Ağbaş / Pexels
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ESA's CryoSat mission reposted
ESA's Swarm mission
@esa_swarm
Apr 27
🧲 Magnetic Monday 🧲 Space magnetometry: mapping Earth’s magnetic field with satellites Nils Olsen on why, despite their limitations, platform magnetometers on satellites like @esa_cryosat are a valuable supplement to dedicated missions 🔗link.springer.com/article/10.118…
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ESA Earth Online
@ESA_EarthOnline
Apr 27
The largest of the three National Parks of Iceland 🇮🇸, Vatnajökull National Park is shown in this July 1999 scene by @NASA's Landsat-7 satellite. The Park covers ~13% of the entire country and include the great Vatnajökull glacier: 🔷 in blue/cyan tone in the L-7 image and the
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ESA's CryoSat mission
@esa_cryosat
Apr 22
CryoSat CryoTEMPO-EOLIS Baseline 3 data products now available! 📸 Improved data coverage of Antarctic Peninsula 🔗earth.esa.int/eogateway/news…
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ESA Climate Office
@esaclimate
Apr 21
🧊 A glacier in Tibet collapsed in 2022 – releasing 40 million m³ of ice, unnoticed for two years. It was satellite data that revealed what had happened: the glacier tongue had disappeared. Using imagery from the ESA Climate Change Initiative, scientists were able to reconstruct
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ESA's CryoSat mission
@esa_cryosat
Apr 17
Arctic Sea Ice Prediction for Late Summer! 🧊🏖️ 🔗ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11474… 📸 Envisat
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ESA's CryoSat mission
@esa_cryosat
Apr 16
Cool climate paper! "A first approach towards dual-hemisphere sea ice reference measurements from multiple data sources repurposed for evaluation and product intercomparison of satellite altimetry" @esaclimate 🔗essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/24… 📸 Sea ice, Pixabay/bootstylez
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