{"id":200527,"date":"2024-12-01T09:22:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/powerful-new-us-indian-satellite-will-track-earths-changing-surface"},"modified":"2024-12-01T09:22:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T15:22:30","slug":"powerful-new-us-indian-satellite-will-track-earths-changing-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/powerful-new-us-indian-satellite-will-track-earths-changing-surface","title":{"rendered":"Powerful New US-Indian Satellite will Track Earth\u2019s Changing Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/powerful-new-us-indian-satellite-will-track-earths-changing-surface2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, as well as damage to infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t always notice it, but much of Earth\u2019s surface is in constant motion. Scientists have used satellites and ground-based instruments to track land movement associated with volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, and other phenomena. But a new satellite from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) aims to improve what we know and, potentially, help us prepare for and recover from natural and human-caused disasters.<\/p>\n<p>The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission will measure the motion of nearly all of the planet\u2019s land and ice-covered surfaces twice every 12 days. The pace of NISAR\u2019s data collection will give researchers a fuller picture of how Earth\u2019s surface changes over time. \u201cThis kind of regular observation allows us to look at how Earth\u2019s surface moves across nearly the entire planet,\u201d said Cathleen Jones, NISAR applications lead at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, as well as damage to infrastructure. We don\u2019t always notice it, but much of Earth\u2019s surface is in constant motion. Scientists have used satellites and ground-based instruments to track land movement associated with volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, and other phenomena. But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200527","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}