NASA recently launched its Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission that will survey Earth's water to help scientists better understand our resources.
it s been indicated this spacecraft is performing really well. they were able to communicate with it, but victor and bianna, it ll take about six months for that first data to get back to earth, and so what this is going to do, how it s going to help, it s going to do the following. it s going to improve computer models that monitor droughts. it s going to accurately measure reservoirs and help communities plan future flow conditions and help improve flood forecasts. so, you know, if you look at before and after swot, researchers on the ground have really only had reliable measurements for about 1,000 lakes around the world. after swot, once this satellite is up and running, that s going to push the number well into the millions. so you can see what a huge increase in sort of eyes on the impacts of climate change that this is going to have for the researchers that monitor this. bianna, and victor? the swot satellite, and i