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When Earth’s Surface Shifts, the New NISAR Satellite Will See It

NISAR, built jointly by NASA and India’s space agency and launched on Wednesday, will use radar to monitor tiny changes across our planet’s land and icy regions.

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The NISAR satellite, a joint mission by NASA and ISRO, lifting off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, on Wednesday.
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Key Hurricane-Monitoring Data Will Stay Online, Officials Say

The Department of Defense said it no longer planned to shut down a program that makes satellite data publicly available to researchers and forecasters.

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According to the Navy, the data will now remain available until the sensors stop working or until the monitoring program formally ends next year.
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