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This video shows how a NASA glaciologist has learned about glaciers and how their formation could be related to climate change. It features nine fly-bys over 3-dimensional glaciers, live video footage of ice fronts calving into the sea, and picture sequences of historical and satellite data.. Length:13:15.
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In
this
chapter,
users
take
the
role
of
students
from
a
small
town
in
Colorado,
who
team
up
with
students
from
the
town
of
Churchill,
Manitoba,
to
explore
changing
sea
ice
conditions
in
the
Arctic.
Together
they
examine
an
animation
that
shows
30
years
of
satellite
images
to
see
how
the
extent
of
sea
ice
in
the
Arctic
has
diminished
over
time.
The
chapter
storyline
is
built
around
the
real-life
case
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In
this
chapter,
using
My
World
GIS,
users
explore
data
that
characterize
the
dynamic
Greenland
Ice
Sheet.
By
examining
photographs,
map
views,
and
tabular
data,
users
gain
an
understanding
of
how
and
why
scientists
are
monitoring
the
ice
sheet
and
what
they
are
finding.
Users
explore
map
layers
that
represent
ice
sheet
thickness,
weather
station
locations,
and
annual
melt
extents
of
the
ice
sheet.
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This guide provides an overview of the Aqua mission, instruments, research, science teams, and Aqua website. This information is provided to aid the professional science writer in writing stories and articles related to the Aqua mission. Note: this guide was produced before Aqua was launched; for the most recent information on Aqua, go to http:/
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This brochure describes NASA's ICESat mission ((Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite), which was launched January 12, 2003. ICESat 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.
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This
lithograph
shows
the
break-off
of
a
large
iceberg
from
the
Pine
Island
Glacier
in
West
Antarctica.
This
event
occurred
between
November
4th
and
12th,
2001,
and
provides
powerful
evidence
of
rapid
changes
underway
in
this
area
of
Antarctica.
The
three
images
presented
were
acquired
by
the
vertical-viewing
(nadir)
camera
of
the
Multi-angle
Imaging
SpectroRadiometer
(MISR)
instrument
aboard
NASA's
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This
5-minute
animation
portrays
fluctuations
in
the
cryosphere
through
observations
collected
from
a
variety
of
satellite-based
sensors.
The
cryosphere
consists
of
those
parts
of
the
Earth's
surface
where
water
is
found
in
solid
form,
including
areas
of
snow,
sea
ice,
glaciers,
permafrost,
ice
sheets,
and
icebergs.
In
these
regions,
surface
temperatures
remain
below
freezing
for
a
portion
of
each
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This
brochure
provides
an
overview
of
the
Aqua
spacecraft,
instruments,
science,
and
data
products
Aqua,
Latin
for
water,
is
a
NASA
Earth
Science
satellite
mission
named
for
the
large
amount
of
information
that
the
mission
is
collecting
about
the
Earth's
water
cycle,
including
evaporation
from
the
oceans,
water
vapor
in
the
atmosphere,
clouds,
precipitation,
soil
moisture,
sea
ice,
land
ice,
and
snow
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This
brochure
describes
the
Moderate
Resolution
Imaging
Spectrometer
(MODIS)
instrument
on
NASA's
Terra
satellite.
The
first
NASA
Earth
Observing
System
(EOS)
satellite,
Terra,
was
launched
on
December
18,
1999,
carrying
five
remote
sensors.
The
most
comprehensive
EOS
sensor
is
MODIS
which
offers
a
unique
combination
of
features:
it
detects
a
wide
spectral
range
of
electromagnetic
energy;
it
takes
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This lesson plan examines how snow and ice cover have changed on the Earth from 1994 to 2004, and allows students to practice using some of the data analysis tools available at MY NASA DATA.
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