{"id":662788,"date":"2020-08-03T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662788"},"modified":"2020-08-03T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T12:23:00","slug":"cryosat-taken-to-new-heights-for-ice-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662788","title":{"rendered":"CryoSat taken to new heights for ice science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sea_ice_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Sea ice\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ice plays a critical role in keeping Earth\u2019s climate cool, but our rapidly warming world is taking its toll and ice is in general decline. For more than 10 years, ESA\u2019s CryoSat has been returning critical information on how the height of our fragile ice fields is changing. Nevertheless, to gain even better insight, ESA has spent the last two weeks nudging CryoSat into a higher orbit to synchronise it with NASA\u2019s ICESat-2 so that scientists can benefit from simultaneous measurements from different space sensors.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/CryoSat\/CryoSat_taken_to_new_heights_for_ice_science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CryoSat taken to new heights for ice science<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice plays a critical role in keeping Earth\u2019s climate cool, but our rapidly warming world is taking its toll and ice is in general decline. For more than 10 years,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":662789,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662788","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=662788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/662789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}