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New NASA satellite mapped the oceans like never before
We know more about our Moon and Mars than the bottom of our oceans.
But a newly launched satellite mission coined SWOT(Surface Water and Ocean Topography) is now giving scientists a much sharper picture of these hidden underwater worlds. “The SWOT satellite was a huge jump in our ability to map the seafloor,” said David Sandwell, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. As the satellite orbits Earth, these overlapping swaths create a two-dimensional map of the planet’s water surface, covering nearly all the world’s oceans as well as large rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.
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