NISAR News & Updates
Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice spilling across the frozen landscapes of the St. Elias Mountains.
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NISAR Mission Data, Applications, Research, and Technology Team (A.3 NISAR DART) solicits proposals to join NISAR’s DART team. Introduced in FY26, the DART structure replaces traditional Science and Applications Teams (SATs) across all NASA Earth Science missions in prime operations,…
A new image from the NISAR mission shows off the satellite’s ability to reveal details of Earth’s surfaces. The science team also released new sample data. A U.S.-Indian Earth satellite’s ability to see through clouds, revealing insights and characteristics of our planet’s surface, is on display in a…
Researchers are turning to satellite data to monitor the world’s longest bridges. Due to high costs and logistical challenges, fewer than 1 in 5 bridges extending 492 feet (150 meters) or more have systems installed to track structural changes that…
Captured on Aug. 21, 2025, this image from NISAR's L-band radar shows Maine's Mount Desert Island.
On Aug. 23, 2025, NISAR imaged land adjacent to northeastern North Dakota's Forest River.
The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) Earth-observing radar satellite’s first images of our planet’s surface are in, and they offer a glimpse of things to come as the joint mission between NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) approaches full…
After launching July 30, the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) Earth-observing radar satellite mission, a joint effort between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is on schedule to start science operations this fall. Following the deployment of its…
NISAR team members at JPL, along with colleagues at ISRO facilities in India, deployed the satellite's radar antenna reflector.
