Thursday, 16 October 2014

NASA Soil Moisture Mapper Arrives at Launch Site

The transportation canister containing NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)



A NASA spacecraft designed to track Earth's water in one of its most important, but least recognized, forms -- soil moisture -- has arrived at its California launch site.










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