{"id":152985,"date":"2022-12-16T17:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T23:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/game-changer-satellite-will-measure-most-of-the-water-on-the-planet"},"modified":"2022-12-16T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T23:22:40","slug":"game-changer-satellite-will-measure-most-of-the-water-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/game-changer-satellite-will-measure-most-of-the-water-on-the-planet","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Game changer\u2019 satellite will measure most of the water on the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/game-changer-satellite-will-measure-most-of-the-water-on-the-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first mission to survey nearly all of the water on Earth\u2019s surface has launched.<\/p>\n<p>The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, known as SWOT, lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 6:46 a.m. ET on Friday. The first stage of the rocket successfully landed back on Earth at 6:54 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Live coverage began on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s website<\/a> at 6 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first mission to survey nearly all of the water on Earth\u2019s surface has launched. The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, known as SWOT, lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 6:46 a.m. ET on Friday. The first stage of the rocket successfully landed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}