Timing Is Everything (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Deputy Systems Engineer Phil Luers explains how ICESat-2's ATLAS instrument transmitter and receiver subsystems come together to calculate the timing of photons, which, in turn, measure the elevation of ice.

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NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center/Ryan Fitzgibbons

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