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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA’s SWOT Satellite Onboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket at Vandenberg Space Force Base

By  //  January 1, 2023

SWOT spacecraft launched Dec. 15

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography spacecraft onboard is seen as it rolled out to the pad, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, at Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. (NASA image)

(NASA) – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography spacecraft onboard is seen as it rolled out to the pad, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, at Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Jointly developed by NASA and Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales, with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency and the United Kingdom Space Agency, SWOT is the first satellite mission that will observe nearly all water on Earth’s surface, measuring the height of water on the planet’s lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and the ocean.

SWOT launched at 6:46 a.m. EST on Dec. 15, 2022.

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