NASA launches satellite ICESat-2 to track Earth’s melting ice

• NASA has launched a satellite named ICESat-2 to understand Earth’s ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice, snow cover and permafrost. ICESat-2 stands for Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2.
• ICESat-2 is NASA’s most advanced Laser instrument — the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System, or ATLAS.

Points to remember:

1. ICESat-2 launched?
2. Name of the satellite.

Source: Read at BS