Mexico City is sinking up to 14 inches per year, satellite images show

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Mexico City is sinking up to 14 inches per year, satellite images show

Mexico City is sinking, and a powerful new orbiting satellite that's monitoring changes in land levels all across the globe has discovered how quickly this is happening. …

Mexico City is sinking, and a powerful new orbiting satellite that's monitoring changes in land levels all across the globe has discovered how quickly this is happening. It's all thanks to the mission's innovative dual-frequency band radar. NISAR, the NASA–ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, launched on July 30, 2025 as a joint partnership between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). …

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