LIVE: We're launching an Earth-observing satellite with @ISRO to map surface changes in unprecedented detail. NISAR will help manage crops, monitor natural hazards, and track sea ice and glaciers.
Liftoff from India is scheduled for 8:10am ET (1210 UTC). x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Earth's surface is in motion: earthquake faults slip, crops grow, levees crumble, glaciers retreat.
A joint NASA/@ISRO radar satellite, NISAR, launched today to measure land and ice land and ice changes like these to within a fraction of an inch: go.nasa.gov/3U4uqTe