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An Earth-observing satellite jointly developed by NASA and ISRO that will help study Earth's land and ice surfaces in more detail will be sent to India later this month for a possible September launch. READ ALSO: Jupiter becomes the planet with the most moons with 12 newly discovered
ISRO President S Somanath visited NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the US state of California on Friday to oversee the final electrical tests of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite ahead of its expedition. India. "This mission will be a powerful demonstration of radar's capabilities as a scientific tool and will help us study Earth's glacial and dynamic land surfaces in greater detail than ever before," Somanath said at the official launch ceremony hosted at JPL in in the presence of experienced scientists from the two space agencies.
