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Officials managing the European Space Agency's (ESA) Earth Explorer constellation say that an innovative microwave radiometer aboard the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite is helping the spacecraft contribute to hurricane forecasts.
The spacecraft was developed for measuring ocean salinity and s... |
11 February 2012
04:08 GMT |
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When the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) spacecraft, experts were planning to measure those two factors primarily. However, recent datasets from the satellite indicate that it can also keep track of sea ice thickness around the poles.
The instruments aboard the vehic... |
22 December 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) say that the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is capable of using its advanced remote-sensing technology to keep track of how soils freeze over as winter sets in.
This year is not a particularly good one for such investigations, primarily due to the extre... |
14 December 2011
10:46 GMT |
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December is already upon us, and autumn is theoretically over, but not for Europe. This fall was very dry and warm, which is really unusual for the Old Continent. As such, the European Space Agency (ESA) is having its SMOS water mission keep an eye on things.
As its name implies, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinit... |
8 December 2011
03:49 GMT |
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The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite (SMOS), a part of the Living Planet Program operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), has been proven to produce data of the utmost sensitivity and precision. The validation efforts spanned that past two years.
In order to ensure if the advanced microwave technology... |
2 December 2011
08:50 GMT |
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European Space Agency (ESA) experts managing the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite were just awarded the prestigious Certificate of Recognition by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. The prize comes just two years after the spacecraft was launched. Back in November 2009, SMOS became the f... |
22 August 2011
10:39 GMT |
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As a major crisis is unfolding in the Horn of Africa, the European Space Agency (ESA) is keeping tabs on the situation from orbit. The organization uses its satellites to track how more and more vegetation is destroyed daily, while precipitations stubbornly refuse to fall. Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti are th... |
22 July 2011
10:16 GMT |
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After the European Space Agency (ESA) launched its Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite, experts soon observed that the spacecraft was unable to transmit properly due to interferences. Now that those have been removed, SMOS products are more detailed than ever. Pirate radio signals were abusively coverin... |
14 June 2011
10:49 GMT |
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Experts at NASA say that their newest ocean salinity-monitoring spacecraft will launch to the skies on Friday, June 10, at around 10:20 am EDT (1420 GMT). If successful, the mission will allow us to understand how Earth's oceans control the planet's climate in more exquisite detail. The spacecraft will be c... |
9 June 2011
03:04 GMT |
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As NASA and the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE) – the Argentinian space agency – prepare to launch the SAC-D spacecraft, experts take a retrospective look at the complexity associated with measuring ocean salinity from space. The Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas vehicle is a... |
26 May 2011
17:01 GMT |
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The year debuted with a very dry spring for Western Europe, climate experts said a little while back, and this was also confirmed by orbital readings taken by a dedicated satellite. Its maps show the vast difference between readings collected in 2010 and 2011 over the same areas. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity ... |
12 May 2011
08:49 GMT |
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Today marks a very special event for the European Space Agency (ESA), which announces the one year anniversary since the launch of the advanced Earth Explorer Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite.The Earth-observing spacecraft is the most sensitive of its type ever built, and it can provide ultra-precise... |
2 November 2010
07:35 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) say that their efforts of reducing the amount of interference their advanced SMOS satellite is subjected to are finally beginning to pay off. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is one of the most sensitive spacecrafts ever sent to Earth's orbit, and... |
6 October 2010
18:01 GMT |
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The SMOS satellite has just beamed back new data on the planet's water cycle, experts at ESA announce. They say that the preliminary data looks at how surface currents affect the 'Amazon plume'.The goal of the investigation was to see how the plume disperses into the open sea, and to identify and analy... |
3 September 2010
06:52 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that their SMOS satellite officially finished its planned commissioning phase last week. This means that the observatory has begun its actual science phase, which is a major milestone for the mission. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite was launched on... |
24 May 2010
02:40 GMT |
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Experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that their SMOS satellite, one of the most advanced Earth-observing instruments it has in orbit, is getting ready to exit its commissioning phase. As part of this effort, a new ground-based verification grid is being constructed around the world, whose sole purpose ... |
14 May 2010
10:14 GMT |
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On November 2, 2009, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched two new spacecraft in Earth's orbit, aboard a Russian-built Rockot delivery system. The largest payload was the large Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite, which was accompanied by the small demonstrations spacecraft Proba-2. Both probes ... |
29 April 2010
08:31 GMT |
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) advanced Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite was only launched in November 2009, but it's already providing its operators with its first results. In order to ensure that these are the most accurate observations possible, teams on the ground are currently check... |
10 March 2010
02:27 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite on November 2. The primary goal of this mission was to assess global soil moisture and ocean salinity variations, so as to provide experts with a clearer, more in-depth understanding of our planet's water cycles. Now, ... |
24 February 2010
03:51 GMT |
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite (SMOS), a part of the Living Planet Program, has recently finished activating its MIRAS instrument, the primary science payload. The agency made the announcement recently, highlighting the fact that the instrument would play an essentia... |
20 November 2009
03:04 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA), the operator of the newly-launched Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite (SMOS), has announced today that the instrument has successfully deployed its three-antenna arms, which was the most delicate process in the commissioning phase. The Living Planet Program components are curr... |
4 November 2009
16:11 GMT |
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At around 04:50 local time (0150 GMT) this morning, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite (SMOS), part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Living Planet Program, roared into the sky aboard a modified Russian Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) SS-19. The Rockot delivery system took off from the P... |
2 November 2009
05:02 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) is scheduled to launch the world's first hydrological satellite on November 2, from its Kourou Space Center, in French Guiana, South America. The instrument will be uniquely equipped to analyze moisture levels on the surface of the planet, AlphaGalileo reports. In charge of invest... |
28 October 2009
16:41 GMT |
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After a long journey that lasted a few days, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite, an important part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Living Planet Program, has been safely delivered to its launch site, the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in northern Russia. The spacecraft was designed and built by sou... |
18 September 2009
20:01 GMT |
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