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ESA and NASA line up satellites to measure Antarctic sea-ice

"This could be revolutionary. We may never get the chance again to do this with two such different instruments." explains Tommaso Parrinello @tparrine, @esa_cryosat Mission Manager

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Europe and US line up to measure Antarctic sea-ice

Aligning polar satellites will enable the first ever reliable maps of Antarctic sea-ice thickness.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53326490

"Icesat is quite a bit below us so we can& #39;t go down to meet them, but by going up we find this incredible resonant orbit in which for every 19 orbits for us and 20 orbits for them - we will meet at the poles within a certain time lag," Tommaso continues

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"Icesat is quite a bit below us so we can& #39;t go down to meet them, but by going up we find this incredible resonant orbit in which for every 19 orbits for us and 20 orbits for them - we will meet at the poles within a certain time lag," Tommaso continueshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=

@NASA& #39;s IceSat-2" title=""Icesat is quite a bit below us so we can& #39;t go down to meet them, but by going up we find this incredible resonant orbit in which for every 19 orbits for us and 20 orbits for them - we will meet at the poles within a certain time lag," Tommaso continueshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎨" title="Farbpalette" aria-label="Emoji: Farbpalette"> @NASA& #39;s IceSat-2" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>

"Basically, every 1.5 days, we meet over the poles within a few hours of each other and that means we can observe the same ice almost simultaneously."

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎨" title="Farbpalette" aria-label="Emoji: Farbpalette">Find out more about ESA& #39;s Cryosat ice mission

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Find out more about ESA& #39;s Cryosat ice mission https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👉" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach rechts"> https://www.esa.int/Applicati..." title=""Basically, every 1.5 days, we meet over the poles within a few hours of each other and that means we can observe the same ice almost simultaneously."https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎨" title="Farbpalette" aria-label="Emoji: Farbpalette">Find out more about ESA& #39;s Cryosat ice mission https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👉" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach rechts"> https://www.esa.int/Applicati..." class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>

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