Tuesday 8 September 2015

SMAP ends radar operations

EARTH OBSERVATION
SMAP ends radar operations
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2015 - Mission managers for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory have determined that its radar, one of the satellite's two science instruments, can no longer return data. However, the mission, which was launched in January to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or thawed, continues to produce high-quality science measurements supporting SMAP's objectives with ... more


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