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December 28, 2022

Watch the Latest Water Satellite Unfold in Space

Cameras on the Surface Water and Ocean Topography spacecraft captured the antennas for its main science instrument unfurling in orbit.

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December 16, 2022

NASA Launches International Mission to Survey Earth's Water

Led by NASA and the French space agency CNES, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will provide high-definition data on nearly all the water on our planet’s surface.

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December 12, 2022

Latest Water Satellite Packs Engineering Punch

Meet the scientific heart of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, which will see Earth’s water in higher definition than ever before.

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December 9, 2022

Water Mission to Gauge Alaskan Rivers on Front Lines of Climate Change

The upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will provide a trove of data on Earth’s water resources, even in remote locations. Alaska serves as a case study.

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June 15, 2022

Event: NASA Earth Science Applications Week

Join us for NASA’s Earth Science Applications Week 2022! A three-day virtual celebration of the many ways NASA Earth science is being used to make our world a better place.

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April 21, 2021

NASA 2021 Water Resources Solicitation

NASA has released a 2021 solicitation for water-resource proposals through NASA's Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES). The first-round deadline is May 21, 2021.

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April 19, 2021

We're All Connected

From big to small...we’re all connected. In honor of Earth Day this week, NASA is hosting an Earth Day Virtual Event and releasing a range of activities, live talks, games, videos and great downloadable posters and books.

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March 4, 2026

US-French Satellite Takes Stock of World’s River Water

In a first, a space mission led by NASA and France has tracked Earth’s rivers swelling and shrinking from month to month over the course of a year and found significantly less of a swing than previous model-based estimates. 

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June 25, 2025

NASA’s Western Water Action Office (WWAO) Partners with Hazen and Sawyer to Improve Western Water Decision-Making Using NASA Earth Data

An exciting collaboration harnessing 65 years of NASA Earth monitoring and state-of-the-art data to support smarter water management across the Western U.S.

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May 1, 2025

Informing Food Security and Health Applications in the Chesapeake Watershed with Remote Sensing

The Chesapeake Bay Working Group at Goddard includes several stakeholders who collectively review how NASA satellite data can help support a variety of needs in the largest North American estuary.