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NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has been tracking ice sheets, glaciers, forests, and even ocean floors with remarkable precision since 2018. Designed to measure ice, its laser pulses have revealed significant changes in places like Antarctica’s rapidly retreating Vanderford Glacier…
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2 Trillion Pulses Unleashed: NASA’s Space Laser Reveals Earth’s Shifting Ice
Kate Ramsayer NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center
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NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has been tracking ice sheets, glaciers, forests, and even ocean floors with remarkable precision since 2018. Designed to measure ice, its laser pulses have revealed significant changes in places like Antarctica’s rapidly retreating Vanderford Glacier…
