{"id":754276,"date":"2023-04-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=754276"},"modified":"2023-04-26T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T13:00:00","slug":"cryosat-reveals-ice-loss-from-glaciers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=754276","title":{"rendered":"CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"Glacier ice loss visualised as a cube\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When one thinks of the damage that climate change is doing, it\u2019s probable that what comes to mind is a vision of huge lumps of ice dropping off one of the polar ice sheets and crashing into the ocean. While Greenland and Antarctica are losing masses of ice, so too are most of the glaciers around the world, but it\u2019s tricky to measure how much ice they are shedding.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to ESA\u2019s CryoSat satellite and a breakthrough way of using its data, scientists have discovered that glaciers worldwide have shrunk by a total of 2% in just 10 years, and it\u2019s because of higher air temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/FutureEO\/CryoSat\/CryoSat_reveals_ice_loss_from_glaciers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one thinks of the damage that climate change is doing, it\u2019s probable that what comes to mind is a vision of huge lumps of ice dropping off one of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754276","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\/754276","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=754276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754276\/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=754276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}