{"id":661158,"date":"2020-07-16T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T20:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=661158"},"modified":"2020-07-16T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T20:07:43","slug":"syncing-nasa-laser-esa-radar-for-a-new-look-at-sea-ice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=661158","title":{"rendered":"Syncing NASA laser, ESA radar for a new look at sea ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a small nudge to a satellite&#8217;s orbit, scientists will soon have simultaneous laser and radar measurements of ice, providing new insights into Earth&#8217;s frozen regions. On July 16, the European Space Agency (ESA) begins a series of precise maneuvers that will push the orbit of its radar-carrying CryoSat-2 satellite about half a mile higher\u2014putting it in sync with NASA&#8217;s laser-carrying Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite 2, or ICESat-2.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-07-syncing-nasa-laser-esa-radar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Syncing NASA laser, ESA radar for a new look at sea ice<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a small nudge to a satellite&#8217;s orbit, scientists will soon have simultaneous laser and radar measurements of ice, providing new insights into Earth&#8217;s frozen regions. On July 16, the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}