NASA's new lasers to reveal polar ice changes down to the width of a pencil

Ice coverage at the Earth's polar regions provides scientists with a crude but clear window into a changing climate, and they will soon be able to observe its shifts with unprecedented detail. NASA is preparing to launch a new tool into orbit that will bounce lasers off polar ice to finely monitor elevation changes over time, providing new insights into not only the severity of climate change, but how it is directly impacting sea level rise.

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Category: Space

Tags:

• Climate Change
• Global Warming
• Ice
• Laser
• NASA
• Polar
• Sea-level rise

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