NASA is using its advanced technology to head for space — so it can monitor our home. The new technology will give NASA a 3D view of how the Earth's systems are operating and are impacted by climate change.
NASA is using its advanced technology to head for space — so it can monitor our home. In its latest climate report, the agency says 2022 was the globe's fifth-hottest year on record, part of a long-term warming trend attributed tocaused by humans. Some of its newest high-tech efforts will help gather more data on how our planet is changing.
"Really looking at the heartbeat of the planet, just a whole host of things that we are tracking every single day," said Randy Friedl, deputy director of Earth Science at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. launched a rocket from California carrying a satellite known as SWOT, short for Surface Water and Ocean Topography.
Project scientist Paul Rosen says the satellite can survey 6 million bodies of water every three weeks. Rosen believes the satellite will help to better detect and plan for floods, droughts, and rising seas which are expected to make many coastal areas around the world uninhabitable in the decades to come.
This will allow better detection of ice sheet collapse and the melting of glaciers. It will track deforestation, which contributes to global warming, as well as monitor groundwater supplies and even soil moisture, which can help predict the risk of wildfires.
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