Showing posts with label NASA Satellites Detect Unexpected Ice Loss in East Antarctica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA Satellites Detect Unexpected Ice Loss in East Antarctica. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

NASA Satellites Detect Unexpected Ice Loss in East Antarctica

Using gravity measurement data from the NASA/German Aerospace Center's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) mission, a team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin has found that the East Antarctic ice sheet-home to about 90 percent of Earth's solid fresh water and previously considered stable-may have begun to lose ice.The team used Grace data to estimate Antarctica's ice