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Arctic Lakes
Published:
May 8, 2014
Arctic Lakes
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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 (March 2012).
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SWOT leaving NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California en route to March Air Reserve Base.
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.
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An artist’s concept of the SWOT spacecraft (February 2015).
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Engineers integrate separate parts of the SWOT satellite into one in a Thales Alenia Space clean room facility in Cannes, France.
Part of the SWOT satellite's science instrument payload in a clean room at a Thales facility.
The logo for the Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission.
SWOT Mission Logo
SWOT Applications Lead, Margaret Srinivasan, helps young visitors match data user types - from coastal safety officers to farmers - with pictures representing SWOT applications.
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Arctic
Arctic
An artist’s concept of the SWOT spacecraft (January 2012).
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Disappearing lakes in Barrow, Alaska.
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