SWOT Mission Unlocks a New View of Our Waterways

Explore how rivers move, change, and sustain life across the planet. Using data from the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) mission, jointly developed by the NASA/JPL and the Centre National d'Études Spatiales with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency and the United Kingdom Space Agency, scientists can now measure rivers continuously and across the entire globe for the first time in human history. From the Mississippi River to the Amazon, these observations reveal how rivers flow, how they change over time, and how they support ecosystems, economies, and communities worldwide like never before. Music credit: "Wander Instrumental" by the Music Yard from Universal Production Music "Sunny Morning Instrumental" by Vigne Wintrebert from Universal Production Music "Magical Mushrooms Instrumental" by Doddy from Universal Production Music "Board Game Instrumental" by de Chaumont Dubois from Universal Production Music Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio Grace Weikert (eMITS): Lead Producer Grace Weikert (eMITS): Writer Grace Weikert (eMITS): Narrator Grace Weikert (eMITS): Audio Engineer Sally Younger (NASA/JPL): Communications Specialist Andrew Wang (NASA/JPL): Media Relations Specialist Arnaud Cerbelaud (NASA/JPL): Scientist Cedric David (NASA/JPL): Scientist This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14990. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14990. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/. If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · X: http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc