Using data from several Earth-observing satellites, including ESA’s CryoSat and the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 missions, scientists have discovered that a huge flood beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet surged upwards with such force that it fractured the ice sheet resulting in a vast quantity of meltwater bursting through the ice surface. The research was funded by ESA’s Earth Observation FutureEO programme’s Science for Society initiative.

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