ESA - SMOS - Archive

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The mission

ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is dedicated to making global observations of soil moisture over land and salinity over oceans. By consistently mapping these two important components in the water cycle, SMOS is advancing our understanding of the exchange processes between Earth’s surface and atmosphere and is helping to improve weather and climate models.

The launch

Date: 2 November 2009
Site: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
Launcher: Rockot

758 km mean altitude
69 antenna receivers
10+ years in orbit

SMOS

Flooded forest, Czech Republic

Water mission extends its talents to carbon

22/03/2013 2298 views 15 likes

SMOS: the global success story continues

22/02/2013 8792 views 31 likes

Hurricane Sandy from SMOS

Super storm tracked by ESA water mission

09/11/2012 2270 views 7 likes

ESA satellites looking deeper into sea ice

05/10/2012 3454 views 0 likes

SMOS vs Argo

SMOS has a better look at salinity

01/10/2012 2792 views 3 likes

SMOS vs Argo

SMOS has a better look at salinity

01/10/2012 1236 views 1 likes

Sea surface salinity

SMOS satellite measurements improve as ground radars switch…

03/07/2012 3476 views 3 likes

Over 30 years of global soil moisture observations for clim…

19/06/2012 13590 views 7 likes

Europe soil moisture decrease

Europe’s dry soils seen from space

30/05/2012 3611 views 0 likes

SMOS water mission turns hurricane hunter

10/02/2012 2629 views 1 likes

Laptev Sea ice thickness from SMOS

SMOS versatility offers sea ice mapping

20/12/2011 2716 views 2 likes

Frozen soil

SMOS detects freezing soil as winter takes grip

14/12/2011 2276 views 2 likes

Soil moisture, November 2010 and 2011

SMOS maps Europe’s dry autumn soils

07/12/2011 3895 views 3 likes

Calibration tower, Antarctica

Antarctic ice sheet assures SMOS accuracy

02/12/2011 1391 views 2 likes

Envisat image of the Arctic

Arctic ice nears record low

14/09/2011 2363 views 1 likes

Certificate of Achievement for SMOS team

Enabling & Support

Accolade for water mission technology

22/08/2011 1047 views 0 likes

Horn of Africa drought seen from space

22/07/2011 1916 views 1 likes

SMOS gains clearer view as illegal transmitters shut down

14/06/2011 1783 views 4 likes

Comparison of soil moisture in 2010 and 2011

ESA's water mission keeps tabs on dry spring soils

12/05/2011 1165 views 1 likes

Fòrum Marítim Català

World race yields salinity data for ESA's SMOS mission

18/02/2011 1227 views 0 likes

Satellite data to improve flood forecasting

26/01/2011 3129 views 4 likes

Mean dynamic topography of global ocean

ESA missions highlighted at world's largest scientific conf…

17/12/2010 1859 views 1 likes

SMOS in orbit

ESA's SMOS water mission celebrates first year in orbit

02/11/2010 2296 views 0 likes

Spain almost free of radio interference

SMOS water mission winning battle with interference

06/10/2010 3782 views 2 likes

Water mission reveals insight into Amazon plume

03/09/2010 2017 views 0 likes

SMOS shines at symposium

30/06/2010 1598 views 0 likes

SMOS in orbit

ESA's SMOS water mission goes live

21/05/2010 2055 views 0 likes

Dry soil

New global network validates SMOS soil moisture data

14/05/2010 2637 views 1 likes

Fibre optics

Enabling & Support

ESA missions extend fibre optics to orbit

28/04/2010 3327 views 5 likes

Taking in soil moisture measurements

Australian field campaign validates SMOS data

09/03/2010 1224 views 1 likes

Brightness temperature

First images from ESA’s water mission

23/02/2010 2444 views 0 likes

SMOS completes early orbit phase

04/12/2009 691 views 0 likes

Skipper Liz Wardley sets sail

Sailors braving treacherous waters for science

01/12/2009 1120 views 0 likes

First data from SMOS

First SMOS data received

20/11/2009 1791 views 3 likes

SMOS satellite instrument comes alive

19/11/2009 3615 views 6 likes

SMOS

SMOS forms three-pointed star in the sky

03/11/2009 2228 views 1 likes

SMOS and Proba-2 liftoff

Two new ESA satellites successfully lofted into orbit

02/11/2009 3409 views 2 likes

SMOS and Proba-2 ready for launch

30/10/2009 1033 views 0 likes

SMOS Proba-2 launch tower

Watch the SMOS and Proba-2 launch live

30/10/2009 1042 views 0 likes

Watch on Euronews: Studying the seas

30/10/2009 392 views 0 likes

SMOS Proba-2 upper composite in launch tower

Follow the launch of ESA's SMOS and Proba-2 satellites

28/10/2009 1039 views 0 likes

Kimmo Kanto from the Finnish delegation, TEKES

Finnish university and industry celebrate their contributio…

28/10/2009 632 views 0 likes

Upper composite is hoisted to the top of the tower

SMOS and Proba-2 installed in launch tower

27/10/2009 1146 views 0 likes

Guillermo Buenadicha

Enabling & Support

SMOS Payload Operations Engineer: interview with Guillermo …

23/10/2009 670 views 0 likes

Last view of SMOS

Final look at ESA’s SMOS and Proba-2 satellites

21/10/2009 1775 views 0 likes

SMOS joining its launch adapter

SMOS satellite joins launch adapter

14/10/2009 1113 views 0 likes

SMOS in orbit

SMOS launch nearing: Media Day at ESA/ESRIN

09/10/2009 1177 views 1 likes

Satellite Operations and Control Centre - CNES

Operations teams ready for SMOS

05/10/2009 831 views 0 likes

Unloading SMOS in Russia

SMOS arrives safely at Russian launch site

18/09/2009 774 views 0 likes

SMOS

SMOS team gears up for launch campaign

01/09/2009 1027 views 0 likes

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