{"id":735018,"date":"2022-09-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=735018"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T15:00:00","slug":"taking-the-dazzle-out-of-cryosat-yields-a-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=735018","title":{"rendered":"Taking the dazzle out of CryoSat yields a first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Summer_meltwater_ponds_on_sea_ice_in_the_Arctic_Ocean_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Summer meltwater ponds on sea ice in the Arctic Ocean\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since it was launched more than 12 years ago, ESA\u2019s CryoSat ice mission has dazzled by way of its sheer technological and scientific excellence. This superb Earth Explorer satellite has returned a wealth of information that has transformed our understanding of Earth\u2019s ice and how it is responding to climate change. In some circumstances, however, being dazzled isn\u2019t a good thing, particularly when it comes to measuring the height of sea ice from space during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-05058-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">paper<\/a> published in <i>Nature<\/i> describes how scientists have now found an ingenious way of removing the pesky problem of dazzle from surface meltwater to yield the first ever continuous, year-round, altimetry measurements of sea-ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean.<\/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\/FutureEO\/CryoSat\/Taking_the_dazzle_out_of_CryoSat_yields_a_first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Taking the dazzle out of CryoSat yields a first<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it was launched more than 12 years ago, ESA\u2019s CryoSat ice mission has dazzled by way of its sheer technological and scientific excellence. This superb Earth Explorer satellite has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735019,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735018","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\/735018","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=735018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/735019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}