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Keith Cooper

Sharp-eyed US-Indian satellite set to launch July 30 to monitor Earth's surface, warn of natural disasters

An illustration of a satellite with two solar panels orbiting Earth in space.

The first equal partnership between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to take flight on July 30 with the launch of the NISAR Earth-observation satellite.

Standing for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, NISAR will scan our planet to provide the most detailed map of the surface yet, and the most sensitive, able to see the ground or ice creeping by degrees of less than a centimeter.

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