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🛰️ The EDGE satellite will measure the height of Earth’s dynamic surface in incredible detail, from deepening cracks in #Antarctic glaciers to the height of #Amazon rainforest, with an accuracy of less than 3cm from an orbit 390km above the Earth.
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Tasmanian scientist in NASA mission to track ice with space lasers - AAPP
First spaceborne laser altimeter system to monitor the impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems and ice simultaneously