NASA-Led SWOT Mission Provides Sharper Global Seafloor Focus

part of swot satellite

Part of the SWOT satellite instrument payload at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The joint NASA, French, Canadian and U.K. Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) orbital mission is providing an unprecedented global perspective of the world's seafloor in data from its first year of operations, according to research published in the journal Science. Scientists from the Scripps...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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