An astonishingly high-resolution satellite that launched today will soon map changes on Earth’s surface in unprecedented detail — tracking everything from sinking croplands to crumbling ice sheets and ...

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All the activity on Earth’s surface — erupting volcanoes, shifting tectonic plates, restless seas and myriad forms of life — depends on the two-part engine under the hood. Directly beneath Earth’s ...

NISAR will be able to monitor "changes as small as a centimeter in any weather, and in both darkness and light." The U.S. and India just sent a powerful new set of radar eyes into the sky. The NISAR ...