On Dec. 12, NASA will launch the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite into Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission is a collaborative effort between NASA and the French space agency Center National d’Études Spatiales (CNES)—with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the U.K. Space Agency—that will survey water on more than 90% of the planet’s surface.
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Source: Phys.org