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Radar altimetry confirms global warming is affecting polar glaciers

17 March 2006

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This image of South Greenland was acquired on 16 February 2006 by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS), working in Reduced Resolution mode.

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Edge of the Greenland ice sheet near Ilulissat

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Artist's impression of CryoSat in orbit over southern Greenland ice sheet.

The launch of the CryoSat spacecraft was unfortunately aborted on 8 October 2005 due to a malfunction of its Rockot launcher, which resulted in the total loss of the spacecraft.

At the latest meeting of the European Space Agency's Earth Observation Programme Board, which took place at ESA’s Headquarters in Paris on 23 and 24 February 2006, ESA received the green light from its Member States to build and launch a CryoSat recovery mission, CryoSat-2.

Credits: ESA/AOES Medialab