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Successful launch for ESA's CryoSat-2 ice mission
« on: April 14, 2010, 07:36:36 pm »

At 14:57 GMT on Thursday 8 April, the European Space Agency successfully launched its ice mission CryoSat-2 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The long-awaited satellite will measure both the shape and thickness of ice in the Arctic and Antarctica with unprecedented accuracy.

http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=704
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