Launchpad: ICESat-2 – Next Generation Technology
Learn how the second generation of the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite, better known as ICESat-2, is being used to map the ice structures in the world's polar regions. Manipulating the distribution of photons by lasers to create accurate images of these frozen structures allows scientists to study their changes and impact on Earth's climate.
Background Information
Grades 9 through 12
- NASA ICESat-2 Related Videos
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center How to Calculate Sea Ice Changes
Activities
Grades 9 through 12
- TERC -- Earth Exploration Toolkit Whither Arctic Sea Ice?
- GLOBE Earth as a System - Water Cycle Protocol
- Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Changes in Salinity Due to Glacier Movement
- Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) What will happen if climate variability and change cause glacier and polar ice cap melting?
- My NASA Data Cryosphere - Sea and Land Ice Melt, Changes in Snow and Ice Extend
- NASA GSFC Global Precipitation Measurement: Climate Change Online Lab
- NASA Science ICESat-2
- TERC -- Earth Exploration Toolkit Is Greenland Melting?