New mission to track changes in the cryosphere
Tracking ice lost from the world’s glaciers, ice sheets and frozen land shows that Earth is losing ice at an accelerating rate. Monitoring the cryosphere is crucial for assessing, predicting and adapting to climate change.
The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) mission will provide a full picture of the changes taking place in some of the most inhospitable regions of the world. It will carry – for the first time – a dual-frequency radar altimeter, and microwave radiometer, that will measure and monitor sea-ice thickness, overlying snow depth and ice-sheet elevations.
These data will support maritime operations in the polar oceans and contribute to a better understanding of climate processes. CRISTAL will also support applications related to coastal and inland waters, as well as providing observations of ocean topography.
CRISTAL is one of six Copernicus Sentinel Expansion missions that ESA is developing on behalf of the EU. The missions will expand the current capabilities of the Copernicus Space Component – the world’s biggest supplier of Earth observation data.
This video features interviews with Kristof Gantois, CRISTAL Project Manager and Paolo Cipollini, CRISTAL Mission Scientist.
Credits: ESA – European Space Agency
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Loss of ice: Consider the following:
By melting and electrolizing that ice, preferably with 'green' energy, Hydrogen and Oxygen could be generated. Just think of all that wasted energy for society just melting away into the oceans. Instead of drilling for fossil fuels in the deep oceans, etc, why not just move society to a Hydrogen driven economy? (Hydrogen being the most abundant element in this universe). And the by-product of a Hydrogen fuel cell is basically pure water, and the world needs more pure water too.
Good approach, these measurements/observations are very important, with this data you can get a future trajectory or in other words we know what's to come, once observations have enough exposure and records what's to come can be calculated
Safe flight and thank you to all involved with this.
We may have to go and harvest polar ice, take to hot desert landscapes to green the planet, before the ice melts into the ocean.
Thank you video brilliant compliment explanation exhaustive project very illuminated.
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As this is polar mission, will you have any sort of suite of plasma probes on board with it measuring changes in electrical currents and plasma densities etc? As it is at the poles, where the earth's electrical currents from the sun come in, with the return current in the circuit also exiting the planet.
ESA is a saviors of mother earth ❤😊
I wish lots of scientific projects were explained this way. Thank you so much. People has to be aware of what scientists are doing but also be aware by easy explanations what is really happening.
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Thank you.
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