NASA uses laser to measure Earth's 'ice loss'

NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) has used its laser instrument to make "precise, detailed measurements of how the elevation of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have changed over 16 years," according to the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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