ESA - CryoSat - Archive

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The mission

ESA’s Earth Explorer CryoSat mission is dedicated to measuring the thickness of polar sea ice and monitoring changes in the ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica. Its main payload is a SAR Interferometric Radar Altimeter, which is designed for ice, measuring changes at the margins of vast ice sheets and floating ice in polar oceans.

The launch

Date: 08 April 2010
Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Rocket: Russian/Ukrainian Dnepr based on SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile

1st altimeter of its kind
10+ yrs in orbit
719 km mean altitude
92° inclination

CryoSat

A desolate place to work

Probing Greenland’s ice sheet for future satellites

16/11/2016 5339 views 103 likes

Plankton bloom in the Barents Sea

New swath processing for ocean patterns?

28/10/2016 1344 views 6 likes

Stavanger, Norway

CryoSat sets new standard for measuring sea levels

26/07/2016 6414 views 98 likes

CryoSat reveals recent Greenland ice loss

12/07/2016 11709 views 126 likes

From petabytes to pictures

11/05/2016 8310 views 89 likes

Astrolabe Glacier

Antarctic ice safety band at risk

08/02/2016 12455 views 161 likes

Eiffel ice cube

Ice matters

11/12/2015 5363 views 60 likes

Sea ice

Cool summer boosts Arctic ice

20/07/2015 10990 views 93 likes

Southern Antarctic Peninsula ice loss

CryoSat detects sudden ice loss in Southern Antarctic Penin…

22/05/2015 13237 views 115 likes

Spring ice thickness

Fast access to CryoSat’s Arctic ice measurements now availa…

17/04/2015 8454 views 77 likes

Ice venturers yield results for CryoSat

18/03/2015 2857 views 49 likes

Austfonna ice loss

Satellites catch Austfonna shedding ice

23/01/2015 12403 views 95 likes

Five years ice-thickness change

CryoSat extends its reach on the Arctic

15/12/2014 8536 views 68 likes

Gravity reveals seafloor

CryoSat unveils secrets of the deep

03/10/2014 14060 views 114 likes

Greenland ice-sheet height

Ice sheet highs, lows and loss

20/08/2014 15449 views 106 likes

Sea-level detail from CryoSat

Special delivery from CryoSat

11/06/2014 4092 views 50 likes

Antarctica’s ice loss

CryoSat finds sharp increase in Antarctica’s ice losses

19/05/2014 14912 views 98 likes

Setting up camp

Ice mission and extreme camping

14/05/2014 5272 views 60 likes

Antarctic artefacts

CryoSat detects hidden Antarctic pattern

21/01/2014 7989 views 72 likes

Autumn sea-ice thickness from CryoSat 2010–2013

Arctic sea ice up from record low

16/12/2013 41941 views 139 likes

Thinning ice

Antarctica’s ice loss on the rise

11/12/2013 11667 views 106 likes

Measuring the storm surge

CryoSat measures European storm surge

09/12/2013 7177 views 68 likes

New dimensions on ice

11/09/2013 22813 views 68 likes

Site of crater

CryoSat maps largest-ever flood beneath Antarctica

02/07/2013 14494 views 117 likes

SMOS tracks Hurricane Igor

ESA’s Earth satellites are stars

21/06/2013 6914 views 34 likes

CryoSat reveals major loss of Arctic sea ice

13/02/2013 13182 views 44 likes

Altimeter reading over Cuba

CryoSat hits land

21/12/2012 12648 views 35 likes

ESA satellites looking deeper into sea ice

05/10/2012 3773 views 0 likes

Radar altimetry gains altitude in Venice

24/09/2012 2978 views 3 likes

Watch the altimetry symposium live from Venice

21/09/2012 1354 views 1 likes

Mean sea level trends

Call for Media: new data on global sea level changes

19/09/2012 2225 views 0 likes

Mapping the ocean floor

CryoSat goes to sea

28/05/2012 7370 views 8 likes

CryoSat: past, present and future

15/05/2012 1101 views 1 likes

ESA's ice mission

Latest CryoSat result revealed

24/04/2012 5845 views 7 likes

Call for Media: CryoSat’s first map of changes in sea-ice t…

18/04/2012 1283 views 0 likes

Arctic sea ice from the NASA P-3

ESA and NASA join forces to measure Arctic sea ice

04/04/2012 2591 views 3 likes

Camping on blue ice

Checking CryoSat reveals rising Antarctic blue ice

29/03/2012 2551 views 3 likes

CryoSat breaks the ice with ocean currents

06/02/2012 2743 views 4 likes

Tracking CryoSat

Ice data at your fingertips

04/01/2012 1962 views 1 likes

Wind speed from CryoSat

CryoSat ice satellite rides new waves

22/12/2011 2186 views 0 likes

Skidoo and corner reflector

Antarctic expedition checks CryoSat down-under

09/12/2011 2163 views 2 likes

CryoSat rocking and rolling

17/10/2011 1511 views 0 likes

‘Roots2Share’ opening

Greenland and the Netherlands look to CryoSat for answers o…

17/10/2011 1155 views 0 likes

Envisat image of the Arctic

Arctic ice nears record low

14/09/2011 2861 views 1 likes

Arctic sea-ice thickness

New ice thickness map of the Arctic unveiled

21/06/2011 8358 views 6 likes

HRH The Prince of Orange visits Greenland

CryoSat Greenland camp receives royal guest

11/05/2011 1533 views 0 likes

NASA aerial view of site

ESA–NASA collaboration furthers sea-ice research

19/04/2011 2112 views 1 likes

ESA Arctic ice campaign takes off

08/04/2011 1173 views 0 likes

CryoSat detects leads in sea ice

CryoSat ice data now open to all

01/02/2011 4279 views 5 likes

Mean dynamic topography of global ocean

ESA missions highlighted at world's largest scientific conf…

17/12/2010 2079 views 1 likes

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