Antarctica Ice

This scene depicts all three types of observations NISAR is targeting: glaciers (ice), volcanoes (solid earth/deformation), and forests (ecosystems).

NISAR 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 ot...

The NISAR upper antenna boom assembly is pictured on its shipping container in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The spacecraft's radar antenna boom consists...

This artist's concept depicts the NISAR satellite in orbit over central and Northern California.

This view shows NISAR’s flight antenna system before chamber door was closed, as it underwent thermal vacuum testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Thermal vacuum test...

This artist's rendering shows a fully-deployed NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite.

This scene depicts all three types of observations NISAR is targeting: glaciers (ice), volcanoes (solid earth/deformation), and forests (ecosystems).

This artist's rendering shows a fully-deployed NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite.

This view shows NISAR’s flight antenna system before the chamber door was closed, as it underwent thermal vacuum testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The antenna sys...

This artist's rendering shows a fully-deployed NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite.

This photo shows NISAR’s lower antenna boom assembly being mated with the radar instrument structure at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

Engineers check NISAR’s fully deployed 9-meter (29.5-foot) antenna boom assembly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The NISAR spacecraft's radar antenna boom has a four-...

This close-up view shows NISAR’s flight antenna system before testing inside a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Thermal vacuum testing is conducte...

NISAR 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 ot...

Members of the integration and test team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) pose with NISAR’s S-synthetic aperture radar (S-SAR) instrument in a...

NISAR 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 ot...

NISAR’s radar instrument structure (RIS) is shown in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. This internal view of the RIS houses instrument subsystems including t...

NISAR’s upper antenna boom assembly is put into its stowed configuration before integration with the spacecraft's radar payload at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

Engineers and technicians are shown inspecting NISAR’s upper antenna boom assembly after completing deployments and before integration with the spacecraft's radar payload at NASA’s Jet Propulsion L...

NISAR 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 ot...

A joint U.S.-India satellite mission called NISAR – the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission – will soon set out with new tools to better understand climate change. As a way to valida...

NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) have teamed up to create a powerful new space mission that will track our changing Earth in fine detail. The satellite, called NISAR, will use an ...

A recording of the NISAR community town hall presented on July 25, 2023

The NISAR Science Team held a Virtual Town Hall on Thursday, October 13, hosted by the NISAR Project and Science Team. The Town Hall speakers covered updates on NISAR mission, its current status as...