By Abhishyant Kidangoor For decades, satellite images have clearly captured how rampant deforestation is destroying the Amazon rainforest. But what about the trees that remain standing? What do their dimensions tell us about our planet’s future? Quite a lot, in fact. Since 2018, a first-of-its-kind mission by NASA has deployed lasers mounted aboard the International Space Station to measure and estimate the aboveground biomass on Earth. In the Amazon, where deforestation levels have surged in recent years, the GEDI mission (short for Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation, and pronounced “Jed…