NISAR, the radar satellite, set to be launched this year in joint collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will measure some key Earth vital signs, including the health of wetlands, ground deformation by volcanoes, and the dynamics of land and sea ice.
By Mayank Chhaya- Two British paleobiologists are reasserting Earth’s uniqueness in the universe as a living planet even while the search for life elsewhere in the cosmos has gained great urgency in recent years. Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams, both professors of paleobiology at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, are challenging the […]
That was S Somanath, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), speaking at the flagging off of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, Feb. 3.
