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Greenland glacier gives birth to giant iceberg

9 August 2010 Envisat has been observing a rare event in the Arctic since early August - a giant iceberg breaking off the Petermann glacier in North-West Greenland.

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Scientists receive first CryoSat-2 data

20 July 2010 A better understanding of how Earth's ice fields are changing has come another step closer as the first data from ESA's ice mission are released to selected scientists around the world for fine-tuning.

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CryoSat-2 exceeding expectations

1 July 2010 Today, participants at the Living Planet Symposium have been hearing about ESA's most recently launched mission, CryoSat-2. In orbit for almost three months, the satellite is in excellent health with scientists very encouraged by the first ice-thickness data presented at the symposium.

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SMOS shines at symposium GOCE giving new insights into Earth’s gravity ESA's biggest scientific symposium gets underway Call for Media: ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, Bergen, 28 June–2 July Polar scientists herald importance of satellite observations

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