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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-12 NISAR
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NISAR will use synthetic aperture radar to offer insights into change in Earth's ecosystems, including its agricultural lands. The spacecraft, depicted here in an artist's concept, will launch from India.
PIA26496:
NISAR in Orbit Over Northeastern India (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-21 NISAR
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NISAR will use synthetic aperture radar to offer insights into change in Earth's solid surfaces, including the Antarctic ice sheet. The spacecraft, depicted here in an artist's concept, will launch from India.
PIA26493:
NISAR in Orbit Over Antarctica (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-06 NISAR
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NISAR will offer insights into Earth's constantly changing land and ice surfaces using synthetic aperture radar technology. The spacecraft, depicted here in an artist's concept, will launch from India.
PIA26492:
NISAR in Orbit Over Antarctica (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-23 NISAR
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A container holding NISAR's radar antenna reflector is loaded into NASA's C-130 cargo plane at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, California, on Oct. 15, 2024.
PIA26419:
NISAR Radar Antenna Reflector Loaded for Return to India
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-20 NISAR
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This artist's concept depicts NISAR in orbit over central and Northern California.
PIA26285:
NISAR Satellite in Earth Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-14 NISAR
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The NISAR satellite stayed in this ISRO antenna testing facility for 20 days in September as engineers evaluated the performance of its L- and S-band radar antennas.
PIA26115:
NISAR Completes Trial in ISRO's Compact Antenna Test Facility
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-14 NISAR
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The NISAR satellite enters the thermal vacuum chamber at an ISRO facility in Bengaluru on Oct. 19, 2023.
PIA26114:
NISAR Passes Thermal Vacuum Test in Indian Spacecraft Facility
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-27 Earth NISAR
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NISAR will track wetland flooding to study how these carbon-rich ecosystems are reacting to climate change. It will generate images like this one from an airborne radar that flew over Peru in 2013.
PIA26112:
Radar Image of Amazonian Flooding Similar to Future NISAR Imagery
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-27 Earth NISAR
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This composite uses data from two Japanese L-band SAR missions to reveal land-cover change in Brazil's Xingu River basin between 1996 and 2007.
PIA26111:
Composite of Brazil's 'Arc of Deforestation' Shows Imagery NISAR Will Produce
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-13 NISAR
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A team of engineers and technicians from ISRO and NASA pose in June at ISRO's U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru, India, after working together to combine the two main components of the NISAR satellite.
PIA25867:
U.S.-Indian Team Collaborates to Assemble Main Components of NISAR
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-13 NISAR
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A crane is used to align NISAR's radar instrument payload, seen partially wrapped in gold-colored thermal blanketing, with the satellite's spacecraft bus, which is inside blue blanketing, in an ISRO clean room in Bengaluru, India, in June, 2023.
PIA25866:
NISAR Satellite's Major Components Come Together
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-13 NISAR
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Engineers joined the two main components of NISAR in an ISRO clean room in Bengaluru, India, in June, 2023. The payload arrived from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in March, 2023, while the bus was built at the ISRO facility.
PIA25865:
Main Components of NISAR Satellite Joined
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