NASA Radar Watches Over California's Aging Levees

NASA Radar Watches Over California's Aging Levees
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 02, 2014 - One morning in 2008, research scientist Cathleen Jones of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., was flying over the San Andreas fault near San Francisco, testing a new radar instrument built at JPL. As the plane banked to make a turn, she looked down to see the Sacramento River delta, a patchwork of low-lying lands crisscrossed by levees. Jones was using an instrument that ... morehttp://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Radar_Watches_Over_Californias_Aging_Levees_999.html