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- [Source: NASA ICESat home page]
ICESat (Ice, Cloud,and land Elevation Satellite) is the benchmark Earth Observing System mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics. From 2003 to 2009, the ICESat mission provided multi-year elevation data needed to determine ice sheet mass balance as well as cloud property information, especially for stratospheric clouds common over polar areas. It also provided topography and vegetation data around the globe, in addition to the polar-specific coverage over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: ICESAT Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Short_Name: ICESAT Long_Name: Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: ICESAT End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: GLAS End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Altitude: ~600 km Orbit_Inclination: 94 degrees Period: ~97 minutes Repeat_Cycle: 91 days with ~33 days subcycle Perigee: 593 km (368 mi) Apogee: 610 km (379 mi) Orbit_Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Polar Non-Sun-Synchronous End_Group Creation_Date: 2007-04-16 Online_Resource: http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Online_Resource: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/glas/Mission_Description/ Online_Resource: http://nasascience.nasa.gov/missions/icesat Online_Resource: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/glas/groundtrack/ Online_Resource: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/glas/atbd.html Sample_Image: http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2010/03/31/icesat.jpeg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 2003-01-12 Launch_Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA Design_Life: 3 years Primary_Sponsor: USA/NASA End_Group End_Group
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