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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Ice Height

Scientists project ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets will play a large part in sea level rise in the upcoming century.


Images by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio/Kel Elkins and NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens. Story by Kasha Patel, with scientific input from Thomas Neumann/NASA Goddard, Nathan Kurtz/NASA Goddard, Ben Smith/University of Washington, and Helen Fricker/University of California-San Diego.

Published November 5, 2020
Data acquired December 31, 2019

Sources:
ICESat > GLAS
ICESat-2 > ATLAS
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Photograph
Collection:
Sea Level Rise