NISAR will study changes to the world's ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice in fine detail, as climate change warms the air and ocean. NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have teamed up to create NISAR, short for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar.
US-Indian satellite will measure some key Earth vital signs, including the health of wetlands, ground deformation by volcanoes, and the dynamics of land and sea ice.
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