The polar ice caps act as the thermal regulators of the Blue Planet but global
warming could effect one of Nature's most vital balancing acts. To better
identify the risks the European Space Agency is sending the latest observation
satellite into orbit at the end of the year.
Cryosat will measure the thickness and the surface area of the ice with
unprecedented accuracy, within a centimetre.

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The polar ice caps act as the thermal regulators of the Blue Planet but global
warming could effect one of Nature's most vital balancing acts. To better
identify the risks the European Space Agency is sending the latest observation
satellite into orbit at the end of the year. Check out its objectives in Space.
on Euronews


Hollywood's take on global-warming offers the worst case scenario..but back in
reality the scientific community is taking this threat very seriously too.
The ice is melting at an alarming rate, altering the make-up of the polar
ice-caps which act as the planet's thermal regulator.
2.38 Transition to University College of London and set up Seymour Laxon
Here at the University College of London, climatologists study the polar
ice...its constitution gives precise information to the variations in
temperatures its undergone. They also study the thickness of the ice based on
data gathered by the first generation of European ERS satellit