ICESat-2 Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:33:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 NASA Gets New Eye to Watch Earth’s Ice Melt https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-icesat-2-watch-earth-ice-melt-20180915/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-icesat-2-watch-earth-ice-melt-20180915/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:33:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=67112 If everything goes as planned today, climate scientists will have a new satellite in the sky to keep a close watch on the melting of Earth’s ice. The new satellite, called ICESat-2, is scheduled to launch in California at 5:46 a.m. Pacific time. The launch will be shown live on nasa.gov. The satellite’s predecessor, ICESat, […]

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