Indo-Asian News Service: A new laser-based technology from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) holds promise to tell how the melting of earth's frozen regions may affect our climate.
This opens a new vista for researchers to better track the melting or growth of ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice.
A high-altitude aircraft from Nasa flew over the icy Arctic ocean and the snow-covered terrain of Greenland recently.
Aboard that aircraft flew the Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar, or MABEL,...