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Diagram of SWOT Data Collection
"SWOT in a Box" Reveal - Gulf Stream Model
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SWOT 3D Model
Published:
January 14, 2020
SWOT 3D Model
Page Updated: April 16, 2020
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This animation shows estimates of average sea ice freeboard — or the amount of ice above the waterline — taken over a 21-day period from Aug. 8, 2023, to Jan. 14, 2024, by the Surface Water and Oce...
SWOT cryosphere animation: sea ice freeboard
This video gallery produced by CNES highlights some of the first images from the SWOT mission, from sea ice extent to coastal sea height to river and lake measurements around the globe.
CNES - First SWOT Images Video Gallery
Nine months after the mission’s successful launch, the SWOT Science Team met in Toulouse, France, bringing together 300 people from 17 countries on all continents to discuss the results obtained wi...
Recording of SWOT International Science Team Meeting Press Event - September 2023
An overview of SWOT's first data with mission engineer Curtis Chen
First SWOT data with engineer, Curtis Chen
Watch with NASA as we launch an international mission to understand the Earth's water like never before.
Launch of the International SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) Mission (NASA Broadcast)
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite deployed its solar arrays while in Earth orbit.
SWOT Deploys Solar Arrays
Highlights from the Dec. 15, 2022, launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a mission led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES). SW...
International SWOT Mission Launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base (Launch Recap)
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
Earth’s 370 quintillion gallons of water can be found all over the planet in lakes, rivers, glaciers, oceans, and groundwater. However, only a tiny fraction of this water is usable by humans. Under...
Earth's Water Budget
This SWOT Fact Sheet provides an overview of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, including its key objectives, science instruments, and mission partners.
Surface Water and Ocean Topography Fact Sheet
Cedric David is part of the science team behind the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a mission led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spa...
Mission Makers: Cedric David, Scientist on the SWOT Water-Tracking Mission
Christine Gebara is part of the team building the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a mission led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spati...
Mission Makers: Christine Gebara, Engineer on the SWOT Water-Tracking Mission
Marc Simard is part of the science team behind the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES)...
Mission Makers: Marc Simard, Scientist on the SWOT Water-Tracking Mission
Tahani Amer oversees several Earth science missions for NASA, including the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a mission led by NASA and the French space agency Cent...
Mission Makers: Tahani Amer, NASA Program Executive for the SWOT Water-Tracking Mission
Meet some of the scientists and engineers contributing to a new Earth science mission, led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES). The Surface Water and Ocean...
Mission Makers: The Team Behind the SWOT Water-Tracking Mission (Teaser Trailer)
A presentation on SWOT by Dr. Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, Director of the NASA Sea Level Change Team and the Ocean Physics program. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will be NASA...
Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Science Talk
Source: To become operational in orbit, SWOT will need to deploy components that were stored for the launch and orbit insertion process. After the solar panels have been extended, the booms and ant...
SWOT Interferometer Deployment
To become operational in orbit, SWOT will need to deploy components that were stored for the launch and orbit insertion process. First, the solar panels will deploy to power the spacecraft. This an...
SWOT Solar Panel Deployment
Earth is our home. The SWOT mission will give us a better understanding of our world’s oceans and terrestrial surface waters while showing us why these resources are so important.
SWOT: Looking at Earth's Water (Live Public Talk)
NASA and CNES (French Space Agency) are collaborating to make the first global survey of Earth's surface fresh water and study fine-scale ocean currents with a new mission called SWOT, or Surface W...
SWOT: NASA-CNES Satellite to Survey the World's Water (Mission Overview)
The SWOT satellite's research instruments and components packaged and ready for transport to Thales Alenia Space near Cannes, France. Traveling from March Air Force Base in Riverside County, Califo...
The SWOT satellite packaged and ready for transport to Thales Alenia Space near Cannes, France.
A view of SWOT from inside a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft, as it was being loaded en route to Thales Alenia Space near Cannes, France.
A view of SWOT as it was being loaded into a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft en route to Thales Alenia Space near Cannes, France.
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.
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.
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.
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