by Cape Canaveral, FLA. (AP) -Nasa’s first radar images of a new earth-mapping satellite show the Maine Coast and North Dakota agricultural land in incredible details.
The photos, which were released on Thursday, come from a spacecraft that shot in the job from India two months ago.
The joint US-Indian Mission, worth $ 1.3 billion, will investigate almost all land and ice mass in the world several times. By even following the smallest shifts in the country and ice, the satellite predictors and first response will give a leg in dealing with floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions and other disasters.
NASA said these first photos are an example of what will come as soon as the science operations start in November.
The satellite, which flies 464 miles (747 kilometers) high in an almost polar track, is called Nisar, shortly before NASA-ISRO Synthetic aperture Radar. Isro is the Indian Space Research Organization.
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The story has been updated to correct that one image, Show North Dakota, not Minnesota.
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