{"id":46976,"date":"2026-03-28T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=46976"},"modified":"2026-03-28T15:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:34:39","slug":"swot-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/swot-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"SWOT Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>SWOT Satellite Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, NASA has developed a new map of the ocean floor by using satellite data from SWOT Satellite.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About SWOT Satellite<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Surface Water and Ocean Topography<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SWOT) satellite was launched in 2022.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a joint mission of <\/span><b>NASA and CNES (French Space Agency).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Satellite will collect detailed measurements of <\/span><b>how water bodies on Earth change over time.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Features SWOT Satellite<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It uses a specialised instrument called the <\/span><b>Ka-band Radar Interferometer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (KaRIn) to measure the height, width, and elevation of surface water bodies such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and oceans.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SWOT <\/span><b>offers high spatial resolution<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by bouncing microwaves off water surfaces and calculating return time, allowing dynamic water movement tracking.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The satellite covers over 55% of large-scale global floods during their lifecycle through frequent Earth orbits.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The satellite circles Earth and can scan about 90 per cent of the <\/span><b>planet every 21 days.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is equipped to observe the entire length of nearly all rivers wider than 330 feet and more than 1 million lakes and reservoirs larger than 5 acres.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will precisely measure fine differences in surface elevations around smaller currents and eddies, where much of the oceans\u2019 drawdown of heat and carbon is believed to occur.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/tech-news-technology\/what-does-the-ocean-floor-look-like-from-space-nasa-has-the-answer-10602595\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWOT satellite by NASA maps ocean floor and tracks global water changes using advanced radar. 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