ESA's CryoSat mission is dedicated to precise monitoring of marine ice in the polar oceans and variations of ice sheets overlying Greenland and Antarctica.
How to see 2012 DA 14 on 15 FebruaryAsteroid 2012 DA14 will reach its maximum brightness of about 8 stellar magnitudes when rising above the horizon. This means that it will be too faint to be...
Fixing Voyager: How NASA Restored Communications with Voyager 1 from Across the Solar System After more than four and a half decades exploring our solar system and beyond, Voyager 1 has had a...
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket with the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft onboard is seen as it launches on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif....
CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth-observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies. High-resolution mapping of the...