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

Four lakes under Thwaites

CryoSat reveals lake outbursts beneath Antarctic ice

08/02/2017 9010 views 139 likes

Ice thickness from CryoSat and SMOS

Satellite cousins have ice covered

16/12/2016 4122 views 63 likes

Satellites track variations in Antarctica’s glacial retreat

12/12/2016 5446 views 61 likes

2011–16 November Arctic sea-ice thickness

Arctic freeze slows down

30/11/2016 8531 views 103 likes

A desolate place to work

Probing Greenland’s ice sheet for future satellites

16/11/2016 5229 views 103 likes

Plankton bloom in the Barents Sea

New swath processing for ocean patterns?

28/10/2016 1268 views 6 likes

Stavanger, Norway

CryoSat sets new standard for measuring sea levels

26/07/2016 6270 views 98 likes

CryoSat reveals recent Greenland ice loss

12/07/2016 11368 views 125 likes

From petabytes to pictures

11/05/2016 8214 views 89 likes

Astrolabe Glacier

Antarctic ice safety band at risk

08/02/2016 12120 views 161 likes

Eiffel ice cube

Ice matters

11/12/2015 5199 views 60 likes

Sea ice

Cool summer boosts Arctic ice

20/07/2015 10719 views 93 likes

Southern Antarctic Peninsula ice loss

CryoSat detects sudden ice loss in Southern Antarctic Penin…

22/05/2015 13094 views 115 likes

Spring ice thickness

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

17/04/2015 8319 views 77 likes

Ice venturers yield results for CryoSat

18/03/2015 2739 views 49 likes

Austfonna ice loss

Satellites catch Austfonna shedding ice

23/01/2015 12060 views 95 likes

Five years ice-thickness change

CryoSat extends its reach on the Arctic

15/12/2014 8372 views 68 likes

Gravity reveals seafloor

CryoSat unveils secrets of the deep

03/10/2014 13686 views 113 likes

Greenland ice-sheet height

Ice sheet highs, lows and loss

20/08/2014 15088 views 106 likes

Sea-level detail from CryoSat

Special delivery from CryoSat

11/06/2014 3980 views 50 likes

Antarctica’s ice loss

CryoSat finds sharp increase in Antarctica’s ice losses

19/05/2014 14589 views 98 likes

Setting up camp

Ice mission and extreme camping

14/05/2014 5109 views 60 likes

Antarctic artefacts

CryoSat detects hidden Antarctic pattern

21/01/2014 7751 views 72 likes

Autumn sea-ice thickness from CryoSat 2010–2013

Arctic sea ice up from record low

16/12/2013 34113 views 131 likes

Thinning ice

Antarctica’s ice loss on the rise

11/12/2013 11379 views 106 likes

Measuring the storm surge

CryoSat measures European storm surge

09/12/2013 7019 views 68 likes

New dimensions on ice

11/09/2013 22624 views 68 likes

Site of crater

CryoSat maps largest-ever flood beneath Antarctica

02/07/2013 14171 views 117 likes

SMOS tracks Hurricane Igor

ESA’s Earth satellites are stars

21/06/2013 6689 views 34 likes

CryoSat reveals major loss of Arctic sea ice

13/02/2013 12945 views 44 likes

Altimeter reading over Cuba

CryoSat hits land

21/12/2012 12449 views 35 likes

ESA satellites looking deeper into sea ice

05/10/2012 3529 views 0 likes

Radar altimetry gains altitude in Venice

24/09/2012 2844 views 3 likes

Watch the altimetry symposium live from Venice

21/09/2012 1264 views 1 likes

Mean sea level trends

Call for Media: new data on global sea level changes

19/09/2012 2095 views 0 likes

Mapping the ocean floor

CryoSat goes to sea

28/05/2012 7158 views 8 likes

CryoSat: past, present and future

15/05/2012 1037 views 1 likes

ESA's ice mission

Latest CryoSat result revealed

24/04/2012 5695 views 7 likes

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

18/04/2012 1196 views 0 likes

Arctic sea ice from the NASA P-3

ESA and NASA join forces to measure Arctic sea ice

04/04/2012 2383 views 2 likes

Camping on blue ice

Checking CryoSat reveals rising Antarctic blue ice

29/03/2012 2421 views 3 likes

CryoSat breaks the ice with ocean currents

06/02/2012 2586 views 4 likes

Tracking CryoSat

Ice data at your fingertips

04/01/2012 1829 views 1 likes

Wind speed from CryoSat

CryoSat ice satellite rides new waves

22/12/2011 2054 views 0 likes

Skidoo and corner reflector

Antarctic expedition checks CryoSat down-under

09/12/2011 1997 views 2 likes

CryoSat rocking and rolling

17/10/2011 1400 views 0 likes

‘Roots2Share’ opening

Greenland and the Netherlands look to CryoSat for answers o…

17/10/2011 1024 views 0 likes

Envisat image of the Arctic

Arctic ice nears record low

14/09/2011 2546 views 1 likes

Arctic sea-ice thickness

New ice thickness map of the Arctic unveiled

21/06/2011 7857 views 6 likes

HRH The Prince of Orange visits Greenland

CryoSat Greenland camp receives royal guest

11/05/2011 1388 views 0 likes

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