Geoscientists use satellite data to determine how water shapes the land

What's the shape of water? In 2022, NASA launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to answer this ...
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Flood forecasting from space, NASA’s SWOT satellite is making it happen

WASHINGTON — A NASA satellite is giving scientists an unprecedented look at bodies of water all over the world. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, also known as SWOT, is already ...

Tsunamis aren’t what we thought: NASA satellite throws new light on how giant waves travel

SWOT was never designed to track disasters. Launched in December 2022 as a joint mission between NASA and France’s Centre ...
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A NASA satellite caught a giant tsunami doing something scientists didn’t expect

When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were ...
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New NASA Satellite Photos Could Change The Way We Understand Tsunamis

The most recent breakthrough in human understanding of extreme weather events happened by accident. Tsunami physics has always been difficult to study, both because of their infrequency and the ...