What Happened
NISAR Mission Delivers High-Resolution Data and Images
The US-India NISAR satellite has begun delivering data on Earth’s land and ice masses, providing high-resolution images of the planet’s surface. The satellite’s L-band radar has revealed a detailed image of an Antarctic landscape, showing a mountaintop surrounded by ice fractured with crevasses. The data release is part of the NISAR mission’s ongoing effort to track changes in the planet’s surface, with all data acquired during science operations expected to be released by the end of the year, as reported by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.