India, July 30 -- Isro on Tuesday said it was all set to launch Nisar satellite, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between the Indian space agency and Nasathat can detect even small changes in the Earth's surface such as ground deformation, ice sheet movement and vegetation dynamics. On July 30, at 5.40pm, Nisar or the Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar, which has been a decade in the making, will lift off aboard Isro's GSLV-F16 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The life of the mission is five years. P9

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