NASA animation of SWOT satellite

[Image appears of the underneath of a satellite in the night sky]

[Camera pans up to show a side view of the satellite in the night sky]

[Camera pans around to show a rear view of the satellite in the night sky]

[Camera continues to pan in an anticlockwise direction to show the other side of the satellite in the night sky]

[Camera shows pans out to show coloured beams moving from the satellite to the surface of the Earth]

[Camera zooms out to show the coloured beams moving between the satellite and coloured lines on the surface of the Earth]

[Camera zooms out to show multiple coloured lines circumnavigating the surface of the Earth]

[Camera zooms out and the coloured lines on the Earth’s surface morph into the oceans around the continent of North and South America]