Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 02:44am on 31 Jul 2025,Thursday Science
On July 30, 2025, the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite was launched aboard India’s GSLV-F16 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. Marking the first collaboration of its kind between NASA and ISRO on Earth observation, the mission aims to monitor minute shifts in the Earth’s surface—including landslides, earthquakes, glacial melt, and soil moisture—using advanced dual-frequency radar technology. NISAR will scan the Earth every 12 days, providing free and high-resolution data globally. This mission is a major step in understanding climate change, natural disasters, and land-use patterns with unprecedented accuracy. (PC: ISRO)
