Big reveal

Watch: NASA's new satellite unwraps itself in space, like a little golden gift

The SWOT satellite with its solar arrays extended -- rendering
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Without water, there’d be no life on Earth — and yet there’s still so much we don’t know about our planet’s waterways.

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But a newly-launched spacecraft called the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite will soon begin mapping the planet’s oceans, rivers, and lakes in unprecedented detail.

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