'NASA satellite to measure Earth's melting ice'
NASA is set to launch a satellite equipped with the most advanced laser instrument of its kind into space, to provide critical observations of how the Earth's ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice are changing.
Sep 12, 2018, 16:49 PM IST
NASA set to launch space laser to track Earth's melting ice
The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2, ICESat-2, will measure the average annual elevation change of land ice covering Greenland and Antarctica to within the width of a pencil, capturing 60,000 measurements every second.
Aug 30, 2018, 16:08 PM IST
NASA develops stopwatch with the ability to measure a fraction of a billionth of a second!
To reach the needed precision of a fraction of a billionth of a second, engineers had to to develop and build their own series of clocks on the satellite's instrument – the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System, or ATLAS.
Mar 28, 2017, 18:52 PM IST
Here's why NASA calls low level of Arctic sea ice the 'new normal' – Watch!
The melt slowed down in June, but scientists say the rate of ice loss picked up again during the first two weeks of August, and is now greater than average for this time of the year.
Aug 22, 2016, 13:11 PM IST
