Friday, 9 January 2015

NASA Satellite Set to Get the Dirt on Soil Moisture

Artist's rendering of the SMAP instrument. Image credit: NASA



A new NASA satellite that will peer into the topmost layer of Earth's soils to measure the hidden waters that influence our climate is in final preparations for a Jan. 29 launch.










from News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://ift.tt/1zXkhoL

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