The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission will be ESA's second Earth Explorer in orbit. Launched on 2 November 2009, with a minimum three year duration, SMOS will make global observations of soil moisture over land and of sea-surface salinity over the oceans to improve our understanding of the water cycle. Data from SMOS will be important for weather and climate modelling, water resource management, and agriculture, and will also contribute to the forecasting of hazardous events such as floods. This website from the European Space Agency (ESA) provides information about the mission, the satellite and the launch, together with a brief description of the underlying science. An image gallery, videos, animations and online resources are also provided.
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/smos/
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