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 ...

For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a groundbreaking new ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — NASA’s U.S.-French Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, which was launched in 2022 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, has spotted large-scale river waves for ...

PASADENA, Calif. (KGO) -- With a multi-year drought bearing down on California and the West, there's an intense focus on nearly every drop of water. But in a few weeks, we may begin to get a history ...

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 ...

Taken from the International Space Station by an astronaut, this is a view of Lake Van off Turkey, the largest soda lake on Earth. This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from ...

A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a rare tsunami — and NASA’s SWOT satellite ...

More accurate maps of the ocean floor are crucial for a range of seafaring activities, including navigation and laying underwater communications cables. “Seafloor mapping is key in both established ...

Launched in December 2022, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission houses a first-of-its-kind satellite instrument, KaRin, with an interferometric Ka-band active radar and a near-nadir ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. A new satellite has mapped Earth's ...