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SWOT is being jointly developed by NASA and Centre National D’Études Spatiales (CNES).
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An artist’s concept of the SWOT spacecraft (February 2015).
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An artist’s concept of the SWOT spacecraft.
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Highly visible in their red shirts, SWOT project team members - including Project Manager Parag Vaze at left - interact with the public during the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) "Open House" ...
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SWOT Exhibit at JPL Open House
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AirSWOT plays a key role in SWOT mission development. It allows scientists to study interferometric data before launch and thus be prepared to effectively interpret SWOT data after launch.
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The SWOT satellite observatory is being jointly built by NASA and Centre National D’Études Spatiales (CNES).
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This image shows a map of the 1-day repeat orbit that will occur during the calibration-validation (CalVal) phase for SWOT.
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The Saskatchewan River and Prairie Potholes
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SWOT leaving NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, en route to March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, California. Once the scientific payload arrived, it was sent to a Thale...
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SWOT leaving NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California en route to March Air Reserve Base.
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Alaska lakes.
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A diagram illustrating the swaths of data that SWOT will collect. 
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