Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)

How US-Indian NISAR Satellite Will Offer Unique Window on Earth – NASA

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How US-Indian NISAR Satellite Will Offer Unique Window on Earth – NASA

A Q&A with the lead U.S. scientist of the mission, which will track changes in everything from wetlands to ice sheets to infrastructure damaged by natural disasters. The upcoming U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission will observe Earth like no mission before, offering insights about our planet’s ever-changing surface. The NISAR mission is a … Read more

NASA-DOD Study: Saltwater to Widely Taint Coastal Groundwater by 2100 – NASA

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NASA-DOD Study: Saltwater to Widely Taint Coastal Groundwater by 2100 – NASA

Intrusion of saltwater into coastal groundwater can make water there unusable, damage ecosystems, and corrode infrastructure. Seawater will infiltrate underground freshwater supplies in about three of every four coastal areas around the world by the year 2100, according to a recent study led by researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. In addition … Read more