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Animation
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- Caption:
SMOS in orbit
- Credits:
- ESA - AOES Medialab
- ID number:
- SEMSMP7LURE
- HI-RES MPG size:
- 5 378 kb
- Related Animations:
- Spacecraft engineering
- SMOS
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- Description
ESA's water mission SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) will carry a sophisticated interferometric radiometer capable of observing both soil moisture and ocean salinity by capturing images of emitted microwave radiation at 1.4 GHz (L-band).
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