India, July 22 -- A US-India Earth-observing satellite will be launched aboard an ISRO Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle from its Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, at India's southeastern coast, on July 30.
The Earth-observing satellite, a joint venture by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation, is known as NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission.
It will be the first to carry L- and S-band radars.
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NISAR will scan nearly all of Earth's land and ice surfaces twice every 12 days. The mission will measure changes in the planet's terrestrial ecosystems, growth and retreat of its ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice, and tectonic deform...