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Lake Calado, Amazon
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May 10, 2014
Lake Calado, Amazon
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SWOT Applications Lead, Margaret Srinivasan, helps young visitors match data user types - from coastal safety officers to farmers - with pictures representing SWOT applications.
SWOT Matching Card Game
The logo for the Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission.
SWOT Mission Logo
Disappearing lakes in Barrow, Alaska.
Disappearing Lakes in Barrow, Alaska
Part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite's science instrument payload sits in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly.
Part of the SWOT satellite's science instrument payload in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
This SWOT "Bannerbug" exhibit was created for display during hardware tests conducted during an eleven-day period in October 2008.
SWOT Banner on Display
A Flooded Forest in the Amazon
A Flooded Forest in the Amazon
Soccer Nets on a levee in the Amazon
Soccer Nets on a Levee in the Amazon
An artist’s concept of the SWOT spacecraft (March 2012).
SWOT Spacecraft (Artist Concept)
The SWOT satellite observatory is being jointly built by NASA and Centre National D’Études Spatiales (CNES).
NASA
A photograph of the Varzea Forest area of Brazil (4 of 4).
Varzea Forest, Brazil
Alaska lakes.
Alaska Lakes
Crowds flock to the Earth Sciences exhibits during the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) "Open House" event, giving volunteers (red shirts) a chance to share information about their various miss...
JPL Open House Earth Sciences Exhibits
Visiting Scout uses a color-coded, calibrated stick to determine "sea surface topography" within a wooden box while his sister records his results by placing stickers on a card.
Probing the Depths of "SWOT in a Box"
Arctic
Arctic
SWOT will collect data across a 75-mile (120-kilometer) wide swath, with a gap in the center for an altimetry track. This animation shows the collection of data over the state of Florida, which is ...
This animation shows a simulation of SWOT collecting data over the state of Florida.
A photograph of the Amazon River Delta, captured by Landsat in 2006.
Landsat view of Amazon Delta
An artist’s concept of the SWOT spacecraft (February 2015).
SWOT Spacecraft (Artist Concept)
Siberian Lakes
Siberian Lakes
An image of the original concept for the Water and Terrestrial Elevation Recovery (WATER) Mission, which later became SWOT.
WATER Mission Concept Illustration
NASA’s Blue Marble
NASA's Blue Marble
A photograph of the Varzea Forest area of Brazil (1 of 4).
Varzea Forest, Brazil
This collaborative mission poster, designed by CNES (French Space Agency), shows the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite soaring over an abstract of a water molecule.
Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission Poster
SWOT will provide NASA’s first global survey of Earth’s surface water.
SWOT (Animated Gif)
An early rendering of the SWOT spacecraft (February 2011).
SWOT Spacecraft (Artist Concept)
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...
SWOT leaving NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California en route to March Air Reserve Base.