{"id":203212,"date":"2025-01-06T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T02:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/how-us-indian-nisar-satellite-will-offer-unique-window-on-earth"},"modified":"2025-01-06T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T02:25:13","slug":"how-us-indian-nisar-satellite-will-offer-unique-window-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/how-us-indian-nisar-satellite-will-offer-unique-window-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"How US-Indian NISAR Satellite Will Offer Unique Window on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-us-indian-nisar-satellite-will-offer-unique-window-on-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A Q&amp;A with the lead U.S. scientist of the mission, which will track changes in everything from wetlands to ice sheets to infrastructure damaged by natural disasters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The upcoming U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission will observe Earth like no mission before, offering insights about our planet\u2019s ever-changing surface.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nisar.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" rel=\"noopener\">NISAR<\/a> mission is a first-of-a-kind dual-band radar satellite that will measure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/powerful-new-us-indian-satellite-will-track-earths-changing-surface\/\" rel=\"noopener\">land deformation<\/a> from earthquakes, landslides, and volcanoes, producing data for science and disaster response. It will track how much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/this-us-indian-satellite-will-monitor-earths-changing-frozen-regions\/\" rel=\"noopener\">glaciers and ice sheets<\/a> are advancing or retreating and it will monitor growth and loss of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasa-isro-radar-mission-to-provide-dynamic-view-of-forests-wetlands\/\" rel=\"noopener\">forests and wetlands<\/a> for insights on the global carbon cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Q&amp;A with the lead U.S. scientist of the mission, which will track changes in everything from wetlands to ice sheets to infrastructure damaged by natural disasters. The upcoming U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission will observe Earth like no mission before, offering insights about our planet\u2019s ever-changing surface. The NISAR mission is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203212","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=203212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}