A post-launch briefing was held Jan. 31 to discuss the launch and status of NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft. SMAP, which launched earlier the same day aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, is the first U.S. Earth-observing satellite designed to collect global observations of surface soil moisture. The mission’s high resolution space-based measurements of soil moisture will give scientists a new capability to better predict natural hazards of extreme weather and improve our understanding of Earth’s water, energy and carbon cycles.
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Status Update for Soil Moisture Mission - YouTube
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