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Not far from Los Angeles, one of Elon Musk’s rockets is about to blast off carrying a satellite with extraordinary capabilities.
And two experts in Australia will be front and centre, making sure the SWOT satellite is beaming back accurate data. It will measure rivers, lakes and reservoirs whose water volumes and flow rates have not been observed before, and offer a view of ocean features like currents and eddies, and ocean depth with unprecedented clarity.
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