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

CryoSat reveals retreat of Patagonian glaciers

02/05/2018 8772 views 138 likes

Shifting grounding lines

Antarctica loses grip

03/04/2018 10782 views 164 likes

Secrets of hidden ice canyons revealed

11/10/2017 17831 views 147 likes

CryoSat reveals iceberg

Giant iceberg in the making

05/07/2017 30270 views 224 likes

Antarctica in 3D

CryoSat reveals Antarctica in 3D

24/03/2017 24722 views 168 likes

Sea ice

To the Arctic for CryoSat and beyond

20/03/2017 5117 views 69 likes

Four lakes under Thwaites

CryoSat reveals lake outbursts beneath Antarctic ice

08/02/2017 9298 views 139 likes

Ice thickness from CryoSat and SMOS

Satellite cousins have ice covered

16/12/2016 4366 views 63 likes

Satellites track variations in Antarctica’s glacial retreat

12/12/2016 5675 views 61 likes

2011–16 November Arctic sea-ice thickness

Arctic freeze slows down

30/11/2016 8807 views 103 likes

A desolate place to work

Probing Greenland’s ice sheet for future satellites

16/11/2016 5360 views 103 likes

Plankton bloom in the Barents Sea

New swath processing for ocean patterns?

28/10/2016 1353 views 6 likes

Stavanger, Norway

CryoSat sets new standard for measuring sea levels

26/07/2016 6426 views 98 likes

CryoSat reveals recent Greenland ice loss

12/07/2016 11748 views 126 likes

From petabytes to pictures

11/05/2016 8331 views 89 likes

Astrolabe Glacier

Antarctic ice safety band at risk

08/02/2016 12497 views 161 likes

Eiffel ice cube

Ice matters

11/12/2015 5396 views 60 likes

Sea ice

Cool summer boosts Arctic ice

20/07/2015 11038 views 93 likes

Southern Antarctic Peninsula ice loss

CryoSat detects sudden ice loss in Southern Antarctic Penin…

22/05/2015 13254 views 115 likes

Spring ice thickness

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

17/04/2015 8484 views 77 likes

Ice venturers yield results for CryoSat

18/03/2015 2875 views 49 likes

Austfonna ice loss

Satellites catch Austfonna shedding ice

23/01/2015 12438 views 95 likes

Five years ice-thickness change

CryoSat extends its reach on the Arctic

15/12/2014 8568 views 68 likes

Gravity reveals seafloor

CryoSat unveils secrets of the deep

03/10/2014 14110 views 114 likes

Greenland ice-sheet height

Ice sheet highs, lows and loss

20/08/2014 15509 views 106 likes

Sea-level detail from CryoSat

Special delivery from CryoSat

11/06/2014 4108 views 50 likes

Antarctica’s ice loss

CryoSat finds sharp increase in Antarctica’s ice losses

19/05/2014 14970 views 98 likes

Setting up camp

Ice mission and extreme camping

14/05/2014 5293 views 60 likes

Antarctic artefacts

CryoSat detects hidden Antarctic pattern

21/01/2014 8025 views 72 likes

Autumn sea-ice thickness from CryoSat 2010–2013

Arctic sea ice up from record low

16/12/2013 42882 views 141 likes

Thinning ice

Antarctica’s ice loss on the rise

11/12/2013 11709 views 106 likes

Measuring the storm surge

CryoSat measures European storm surge

09/12/2013 7192 views 68 likes

New dimensions on ice

11/09/2013 22844 views 68 likes

Site of crater

CryoSat maps largest-ever flood beneath Antarctica

02/07/2013 14555 views 117 likes

SMOS tracks Hurricane Igor

ESA’s Earth satellites are stars

21/06/2013 6931 views 34 likes

CryoSat reveals major loss of Arctic sea ice

13/02/2013 13210 views 44 likes

Altimeter reading over Cuba

CryoSat hits land

21/12/2012 12670 views 35 likes

ESA satellites looking deeper into sea ice

05/10/2012 3812 views 0 likes

Radar altimetry gains altitude in Venice

24/09/2012 2992 views 3 likes

Watch the altimetry symposium live from Venice

21/09/2012 1367 views 1 likes

Mean sea level trends

Call for Media: new data on global sea level changes

19/09/2012 2252 views 0 likes

Mapping the ocean floor

CryoSat goes to sea

28/05/2012 7395 views 8 likes

CryoSat: past, present and future

15/05/2012 1104 views 1 likes

ESA's ice mission

Latest CryoSat result revealed

24/04/2012 5869 views 7 likes

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

18/04/2012 1297 views 0 likes

Arctic sea ice from the NASA P-3

ESA and NASA join forces to measure Arctic sea ice

04/04/2012 2612 views 3 likes

Camping on blue ice

Checking CryoSat reveals rising Antarctic blue ice

29/03/2012 2573 views 3 likes

CryoSat breaks the ice with ocean currents

06/02/2012 2764 views 4 likes

Tracking CryoSat

Ice data at your fingertips

04/01/2012 1980 views 1 likes

Wind speed from CryoSat

CryoSat ice satellite rides new waves

22/12/2011 2217 views 0 likes

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