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Soil Moisture Mission Rockets into Orbit

The SMAP mission lifts off to make the most accurate, high-resolution soil moisture measurements ever collected from space.


Bottom image by Bill Ingalls. Top image and caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published February 1, 2015
Data acquired January 31, 2015

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