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

Frozen soil

SMOS detects freezing soil as winter takes grip

14/12/2011 2274 views 2 likes

Soil moisture, November 2010 and 2011

SMOS maps Europe’s dry autumn soils

07/12/2011 3889 views 3 likes

Calibration tower, Antarctica

Antarctic ice sheet assures SMOS accuracy

02/12/2011 1388 views 2 likes

Envisat image of the Arctic

Arctic ice nears record low

14/09/2011 2357 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 1915 views 1 likes

SMOS gains clearer view as illegal transmitters shut down

14/06/2011 1780 views 4 likes

Comparison of soil moisture in 2010 and 2011

ESA's water mission keeps tabs on dry spring soils

12/05/2011 1164 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 3105 views 4 likes

Mean dynamic topography of global ocean

ESA missions highlighted at world's largest scientific conf…

17/12/2010 1858 views 1 likes

SMOS in orbit

ESA's SMOS water mission celebrates first year in orbit

02/11/2010 2292 views 0 likes

Spain almost free of radio interference

SMOS water mission winning battle with interference

06/10/2010 3776 views 2 likes

Water mission reveals insight into Amazon plume

03/09/2010 2017 views 0 likes

SMOS shines at symposium

30/06/2010 1596 views 0 likes

SMOS in orbit

ESA's SMOS water mission goes live

21/05/2010 2047 views 0 likes

Dry soil

New global network validates SMOS soil moisture data

14/05/2010 2635 views 1 likes

Fibre optics

Enabling & Support

ESA missions extend fibre optics to orbit

28/04/2010 3322 views 5 likes

Taking in soil moisture measurements

Australian field campaign validates SMOS data

09/03/2010 1222 views 1 likes

Brightness temperature

First images from ESA’s water mission

23/02/2010 2443 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 1119 views 0 likes

First data from SMOS

First SMOS data received

20/11/2009 1789 views 3 likes

SMOS satellite instrument comes alive

19/11/2009 3584 views 4 likes

SMOS

SMOS forms three-pointed star in the sky

03/11/2009 2226 views 1 likes

SMOS and Proba-2 liftoff

Two new ESA satellites successfully lofted into orbit

02/11/2009 3407 views 2 likes

SMOS and Proba-2 ready for launch

30/10/2009 1031 views 0 likes

SMOS Proba-2 launch tower

Watch the SMOS and Proba-2 launch live

30/10/2009 1040 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 1038 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 669 views 0 likes

Last view of SMOS

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

21/10/2009 1772 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 1176 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 1025 views 0 likes

SMOS launch adapter

Team views SMOS launcher hardware in Russia

14/08/2009 903 views 0 likes

The three Elbara instruments

New SMOS validation instruments ready for action

10/07/2009 1077 views 1 likes

SMOS at Thales Alenia Space

Enabling & Support

SMOS and Proba-2 launch rescheduled for November

22/06/2009 1147 views 0 likes

SMOS

SMOS ready to ship to launch site

28/05/2009 1331 views 0 likes

Looking forward to launch

Enabling & Support

September launch for ESA's water mission

27/04/2009 1027 views 0 likes

SMOS at Thales Alenia Space

Enabling & Support

ESA's water mission on track for launch

12/02/2009 1501 views 0 likes

The Skyvan aircraft

Successful dress rehearsal for SMOS validation

06/06/2008 997 views 0 likes

Taking soil samples in the Takla Makan desert

SMOS goes Olympic

02/06/2008 593 views 0 likes

A happy team after a job well done

SMOS opens arms

25/03/2008 785 views 0 likes

SMOS

SMOS: Helping Europe respond to climate change

15/02/2008 834 views 0 likes

SMOS agency and industrial team

SMOS shakes again

10/12/2007 474 views 0 likes

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