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NASA Launches SWOT To Survey Earth’s Water

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft onboard, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...
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NASA satellite records unprecedented river waves in the United States

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — NASA’s U.S.-French Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, which was launched in 2022 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, has spotted large-scale river waves for ...
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Flood forecasting from space, NASA’s SWOT satellite is making it happen

WASHINGTON — A NASA satellite is giving scientists an unprecedented look at bodies of water all over the world. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, also known as SWOT, is already ...
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NASA’s Space Satellite is Revealing Earth’s Hidden Depths Like Never Before

For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a groundbreaking new ...
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SWOT Unfolds Itself in Space (videos)

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite launched into Earth orbit on Friday, Dec. 16, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in central California, and engineers are working to prepare the ...
Aviation Week

NASA-Led SWOT Mission Provides Sharper Global Seafloor Focus

Part of the SWOT satellite instrument payload at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The joint NASA, French, Canadian and U.K. Surface Water and Ocean Topography ...
ExtremeTech

NASA's New SWOT Satellite Will Survey Global Water Levels With Unprecedented Accuracy

This mission will use enormous radar antennas to make the most accurate measurements ever of water levels on Earth's surface. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...
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Much of what lies on the seafloor remains a mystery. NASA is fixing that.

Taken from the International Space Station by an astronaut, this is a view of Lake Van off Turkey, the largest soda lake on Earth. This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from ...

Satellites spot surprising tsunami patterns: Massive Kamchatka quake challenges old models

A satellite deployed to measure ocean surface heights was up to the challenge when a massive earthquake off the Kamchatka ...
Fox 5 San Diego

Death Valley’s temporary lake was measured by a NASA satellite. Here’s how big it got

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The driest place in ...
ExtremeTech

New NASA Video Shows SWOT Satellite Deploying Enormous Scanning Antennas

NASA says the initial deployment has gone perfectly, and it just so happens SWOT has some cameras so you can watch a replay. The deployment took days, but luckily, you can watch it at a vastly ...