Arctic explorer delivers unique snow-depth data for CryoSat

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Struggling over rough sea-ice during the Arctic Arc expedition. Making headway over the sea ice can be very difficult. Sometimes compression zones can be up to five metres high and open stretches of water leads caused problems for the expedition. Cre ...
Struggling over rough sea-ice during the Arctic Arc expedition. Making headway over the sea ice can be very difficult. Sometimes compression zones can be up to five metres high and open stretches of water 'leads' caused problems for the expedition. Credits: Arctic Arc 2007 - International Polar Foundation

Following a formidable 106-day trek across the Arctic, which ended with the two Arctic Arc expedition members relying on Envisat images to guide them safely through disintegrating sea-ice, intrepid polar explorer Alain Hubert recently visited ESA to handover a unique set of snow-depth measurements.


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