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  • Can we measure how salty the ocean is from space? 🌊 #shorts

    Can we measure how salty the ocean is from space? 🌊 #shorts

    ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission was launched in 2009 and has now over a decade orbiting our planet.

    Ocean salinity can be detected from space by its effect on the electromagnetic emissions from the ocean surface.

    Besides ocean salinity, SMOS also measures soil moisture, which is very helpful for many applications, including monitoring droughts.

    Stay with us if you want to learn more about the Earth Explorers: ESA’s pioneering science missions for Earth.

    📽️ ESA – European Space Agency

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    #Satellites
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  • The State of NASA on This Week @NASA

    The State of NASA on This Week @NASA

    NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, speaking during his Feb. 2 “State of NASA” address at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the release of President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2016 $18.5 billion budget proposal for NASA said, “I can unequivocally say that the State of NASA is strong.” The proposed budget is a half-billion-dollar increase over last year’s enacted budget, which, the Administrator noted, “is a clear vote of confidence to you – the employees of NASA and the ambitious exploration program you are executing.” The budget facilitates NASA’s plan moving forward, which includes development of new vehicles and technologies needed for unprecedented human missions to an asteroid and to Mars, commercial partnerships to provide transportation to and from the International Space Station from the United States and research on the station for the benefit of future deep space travelers and people living on our home planet. Also, New views of Pluto, Soil moisture mission underway and Virginia Aerospace Day!