The mission is expected to shed new “light” on the mechanisms and consequences of climate change
A rocket of hers SpaceX launched this morning carrying one US-French satellite designed to perform the first comprehensive survey of Earth’s surface waters.
It is a mission that is expected to shed new light on the mechanisms and consequences of climate change.
The Falcon 9 launch vehicle, owned and operated by Elon Musk’s commercial rocket company, blasted off just before 4 a.m. (local time, 14:00 Greek time) from the Vandenberg Space Launch Base, 275 kilometers northwest of Los Angeles.
His upper floor double-decker rocket it was expected to reach within minutes its original orbit, about 850 kilometers above the Earth’s surface.
Its payload, the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite, incorporates advanced microwave-based radar technology to gather 90% high-resolution measurements of oceans, lakes, reservoirs and rivers of the planet.
The data, which will be collected by radar scans at least twice every 21 dayswill be used to expand models of ocean water circulation, improve weather and climate predictions, and improve management of freshwater supplies in drought-stricken regions, researchers say.
The components of the SUV-sized satellite were built primarily by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the French space agency CNES.
One of the mission’s major goals is to investigate how the oceans absorb atmospheric heat and carbon dioxide, a process that naturally regulates global temperatures and has helped minimize climate change.
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