NISAR will be able to monitor "changes as small as a centimeter in any weather, and in both darkness and light."

India launched on Wednesday a $1.5 billion, first-of-its-kind radar imaging satellite built in collaboration with NASA, deploying it to help enhance global monitoring of climate change and natural disasters.

NASA and India paired up to launch an Earth-mapping satellite on Wednesday capable of tracking even the slightest shifts in land and ice. Rocketing to orbit from India, the satellite will survey virtually all of Earth’s terrain multiple times.