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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The joint
<b>Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)</b> and <b>National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA</b>) mission called
<b>NISAR</b> will measure Earth’s changing ecosystems, dynamic surfaces, and ice masses providing information about biomass, natural hazards, sea level rise, and groundwater, and will support a host of other applications. NISAR's data can help people worldwide
better manage natural resources and hazards, as well as providing information for scientists to better understand the effects and pace of climate change. Data collected from NISAR will reveal information about the evolution and state of Earth's crust, help
scientists better understand our planet's processes and changing climate, and aid future resource and hazard management. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR)
</b>is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) observatory being jointly developed by NASA and ISRO. NISAR will map the entire globe in 12 days and provide spatially and temporally consistent data for understanding changes in Earth’s ecosystems, ice mass, vegetation biomass,
sea level rise, ground water and natural hazards including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and landslides.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">NISAR is the most advanced satellite built by any country till now for Earth observation. NISAR will
be the first radar of its kind in space to systematically map Earth, using two different radar frequencies (L-band and S-band) to measure changes of our planet’s surface, including movements as small as centimeter.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">NISAR is set to launch from Sriharikota spaceport in India in early 2024. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Details at
<a href="https://www.isro.gov.in/NISARSatellite.html" id="OWAe24f05dd-43e7-d6d4-4021-d083dff85342" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://www.isro.gov.in/NISARSatellite.html</a></span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(220, 161, 13);"><a href="https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov" id="OWA03678547-0ac0-09fb-8a5f-fef1bdf41c6b" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov</a></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I thank all scientists at ISRO and NASA who worked on this important mission that will benefit all humanity.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dr Suchith Anand</span></p>
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