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Access to ICESat-2 data sets in the legacy, on-premises archive at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) will be retired on July 15, 2025. The NASA ...

Fibertek proudly celebrates the achievement of 2 trillion laser shots fired from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite in March 2025, marking more than six years of continuous, high-performance operation on ...

NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite has reached an extraordinary milestone—2 trillion laser pulses fired from orbit. Since its launch ...

This work establishes a simple framework for improving the estimation of basal water content in surge glaciers with a data-driven and model-based approach by combining image classification techniques ...

After studying the footage and comparing it to orbital data, Fujii found the responsible party: NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite 2, or ICESat-2, which had flown over Japan that night.

“The lights are thought to be from a remote-sensing altimeter satellite ICESAT-2/43613” — a NASA craft, the agency said. Video of the strange phenomenon released by NAOJ shows numerous ...

The ICESat-2 measurements revealed that the ice sheet in Antarctica is getting thicker in areas of the continent’s interior when compared to data taken from the original ICESat from 2003 to 2009, ...