{"id":258099,"date":"2025-09-27T06:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/258099\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T06:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:51:23","slug":"first-radar-images-from-new-earth-mapping-satellite-showcase-north-dakota-farmland-maine-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/258099\/","title":{"rendered":"First radar images from new Earth-mapping satellite showcase North Dakota farmland, Maine coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Meet the Minneapolis astronaut preparing to head to the International Space Station <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nasa-isro-synthetic-aperture-radar-25268529911472.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/video\/meet-the-minneapolis-astronaut-preparing-to-head-to-the-international-space-station\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          Meet the Minneapolis astronaut preparing to head to the International Space Station<\/p>\n<p>          04:17<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s first radar images from a new Earth-mapping satellite show the Maine coast and North Dakota farmland in incredible detail.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures, released Thursday, are from a spacecraft that rocketed into orbit from India two months ago. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nasa-isro-synthetic-aperture-radar-25268529911472.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar \" width=\"2048\" height=\"1103\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  This image provided by NASA\/JPL-Caltech on Aug. 23, 2025,  NISAR imaged land adjacent to northeastern North Dakota&#8217;s Forest River, light-colored wetlands and forests line the river&#8217;s banks, while circular and rectangular plots throughout the image appear in shades that indicate the land may be pasture or cropland with corn or soy.<\/p>\n<p>                NASA\/JPL-Caltech via AP<\/p>\n<p>The joint U.S.-Indian mission, worth $1.3 billion, will survey virtually all of the world&#8217;s land and ice masses multiple times. By tracking even the slightest shifts in land and ice, the satellite will give forecasters and first responders a leg up in dealing with floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions and other disasters. <\/p>\n<p>NASA said these first pictures are a preview of what&#8217;s to come once science operations begin in November. <\/p>\n<p>The satellite, flying 464 miles high in a near polar orbit, is called NISAR, short for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar. ISRO is the Indian Space Research Organization.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nasa-isro-synthetic-aperture-radar-25268530556295.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar \" width=\"2048\" height=\"1080\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  In this image provided by NASA\/JPL-Caltech captured on Aug. 21, 2025,  NISAR&#8217;s L-band radar shows Maine&#8217;s Mount Desert Island, green indicates forest; magenta represents hard or regular surfaces, like bare ground and buildings. The magenta area on the island&#8217;s northeast end is the town of Bar Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>                NASA\/JPL-Caltech via AP<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meet the Minneapolis astronaut preparing to head to the International Space Station Meet the Minneapolis astronaut preparing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":258100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2741,3880,159,783,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-258099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-maine","9":"tag-north-dakota","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115274939599922400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}