• → European Space Agency

      • Space for Europe
      • Space News
      • Space in Images
      • Space in Videos
    • About Us

      • Welcome to ESA
      • DG's News and Views
      • For Member State Delegations
      • Business with ESA
      • ESA Exhibitions
      • ESA Publications
      • Careers at ESA
    • Our Activities

      • Space News
      • Observing the Earth
      • Human Spaceflight
      • Launchers
      • Navigation
      • Space Science
      • Space Engineering
      • Operations
      • Technology
      • Telecommunications & Integrated Applications
    • For Public

    • For Media

    • For Educators

    • For Kids

    • ESA

    • Space in Images

    ESA > Space in Images > 2012 > 11 > SMOS in orbit

    Free Search (10899 images)

    • Recently Added
    • Advanced Search

    SMOS in orbit

    (7.56 MB)
    Views: 85
    Rating: 5.00/5 (2 votes cast)

    Rate this Image

    • Currently 5 out of 5 Stars.
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

    Thank you for rating!

    You have already rated this page, you can only rate it once!

    Your rating has been changed, thanks for rating!

    Share this Image

    Post to Facebook Post to MySpace Post to Delicious Post to Digg Post to Twitter

    Details

    Open/Close
    • Title SMOS in orbit
    • Released 25/09/2009 11:53 am
    • Copyright ESA/AOES Medialab
    • Description

      The SMOS mission makes global observations of soil moisture over Earth’s landmasses and salinity over the oceans. Variations in soil moisture and ocean salinity are a consequence of the continuous exchange of water between the oceans, the atmosphere and the land – Earth’s water cycle.


    TAGS

    Open/Close
    • Click on the tags to find the matching images.
    • Activity Observing the Earth , Observing the Earth
    • Mission SMOS
    • Keywords Atmosphere , Water (fresh) , Climate Change , Water cycle

    TAGS

    Open/Close

    Details

    Open/Close

    RELATED IMAGES

    • SMOS in orbit
      SMOS
      Released: 25/09/2009
      Rating
    • TheESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite
      SMOS
      Released: 16/06/2004
      Rating

    Connect with us

    • RSS
    • Youtube
    • Twitter
    • Flickr
    • Google Buzz
    • Facebook
    • Livestream
    • Subscribe
    • App Store
    • LATEST ARTICLES
    • · ESA astronaut Timothy Peake set …
    • · Space drives e-mobility
    • · Proba-V opens its eyes
    • · First new Galileo satellite arri…
    • · Next destination: space
    • FAQ

    • Jobs at ESA

    • Site Map

    • Contacts

    • Terms and conditions