NISAR will provide scientists with valuable data as it monitors ice-sheet changes, sea-level rises, ecosystems shifts and more. According to NASA, the satellite will scan forests and wetlands and study both human-driven and natural changes to these environments.

NASA announced Wednesday it, in a partnership with the Indian Space Research Organization, has launched a radar system to map Earth as never before.

India and the United States have jointly launched one of the world’s most advanced Earth observation satellites—Nisar. Built by ISRO and NASA, this 2,392kg satellite will detect the tiniest shifts in land,