SWOT

Surface Water and Ocean Topography

active Mission

The SWOT mission brings together two communities focused on a better understanding of the world's oceans and its terrestrial surface waters. U.S. and French oceanographers and hydrologists and international partners have joined forces to develop this satellite mission to make the first global survey of Earth's surface water, observe the fine details of the ocean's surface topography, and measure how water bodies change over time.

Type

Orbiter, Earth Observation

Launch

Dec. 16, 2022

Target

Earth

Objective

Collect detailed measurements of how water bodies on Earth change over time
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