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    NASA’s ICESat-2 Resumes Data Collection After Solar Storms

    An artist's rendering of Earth, shown in natural colors against black space. Superimposed on the globe are green lines, representing the orbital paths of ICESat-2. The satellite is labeled as a dot along one of the orbits

    NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite returned to science mode on June 21 UTC, after solar storms in May caused its height-measuring instrument to go into a safe hold. The ICESat-2 team restarted the mission’s instrument, a lidar called the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS), which is once again collecting precise data on the height of Earth’s …

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