# NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission (IG-18-011)
> **NASA OIG audit** · 2018-01-17
## Report
- **Type:** audit
- **Date:** 2018-01-17
- **Modified:** 2024-11-21
## Summary

January 17, 2018 The Office of Inspector General evaluated NASA’s development of the SWOT mission, a space-based satellite that hopes to produce the first global survey of Earth’s surface water, observe details of the ocean’s surface topography, and measure how water bodies change over time.

## Source
- [NASA OIG report page](https://oig.nasa.gov/office-of-inspector-general-oig/ig-18-011/)
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