NASA provided organizations in quake-stricken Turkey with FINDER units, which are "NASA's spinoff technology" that can detect people trapped under the earthquake's rubble.

FINDER is short for "Finding Individuals for Disaster Emergency Response."

NASA started sharing aerial views and information that can contribute to relief efforts and recovery mission after the deadly earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria.

This also aims to improve NASA's ability to "model and predict such events."

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson extended his condolences saying “NASA’s hearts and minds are with those impacted by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.”

“NASA is our eyes in the sky, and our teams of experts are working hard to provide valuable information from our Earth-observing fleet to first responders on the ground,” he added.

According to NASA’s stengths is the synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which can povide a view of Earth regardless of the weather conditions or time of day.

SAR is also capable of measuring how the ground moves and building landscape changes after such events.

Scientists from the Earth Observatory of Singapore and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory created a "damage proxy map" for Turkey based on scenes collected before and after the deadly quakes, in order to compare and detect landscape changes.

Members of the disasters program area of NASA’s Earth Science Applied Sciences, in cooperation with national and international collaborators, shared these maps with organizations such as the US State Department, California Seismic Safety Commission, Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief and World Bank.

NASA’s disaster coordinator for this earthquake Lori Schultz said “NASA takes seriously its obligation to support open science, and make information widely accessible."