NASA sent space laser satellite to detect snow decay

A half-tonne weighing one billion dollars worth of IISAT-2, weighed at a local time, at six o'clock in the morning.

NASA sent space laser satellite to detect snow decay

Los Angeles: American Space Agency NASA launches a state-of-the-art space laser satellite on Saturday to detect glacial decadency in the world and improve the sea-level forecasting due to climate warming. A half-tonne weighing one billion dollars worth of IISAT-2, weighed at a local time, at six o'clock in the morning. It was launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Station in California via Delta-2 rocket.

The launch operator at NASA Television said that for the research on polar ice sheets on three, two, one, out, our continuously changing planetary planet (Earth), ICEAT-2 was going on. This is the first time in about ten years when NASA sent the satellite to the orbit to measure the height of the ice surface on the whole earth. From this, the first mission ISSAT was launched in the year 2003 and it was over in 2009. The ICEAT mission had previously revealed that the sea ice is getting thin and the snow layer is going down in Greenland and Antarctica.

In the meantime, during the nine years, an aircraft mission called Operation Icebridge also flew over the Arctic and Antarctic and took photographs of changing colours of ice. But the sight seen from space-especially with the latest technology should be more accurate.

The new laser will illuminate 10 thousand times in a second, while the ice-laser laser was illuminated 40 times in a second. Snow size measurement will be taken at every 2.3 ft in the path of the satellite.