The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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Venturing out on the sea ice north of Greenland as part of the 2014 campaign to validate measurements from CryoSat. Keeping an eye out for polar bears, the ground team took measurements of snow depth and ice depth as well as detailing ice properties. Along with data acquired from the air, these measurements are compared with data from CryoSat to ensure it is delivering true information about Earth’s changing ice.