{"id":182233,"date":"2009-09-15T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"3d4c2be06927625fe439bd89b5a50be0"},"modified":"2009-09-15T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T22:00:00","slug":"smos-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=182233","title":{"rendered":"SMOS &#8211; Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2009\/09\/smos_-_science\/11132684-3-eng-GB\/SMOS_-_Science_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nA better knowledge of our planet behaviour; this is the objective of SMOS that will be launched on 2 November from the Russian cosmodrome of Plesetsk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) is ESA&#8217;s second Earth Explorer satellite under its Living Planet Programme to go into orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n SMOS will primarily observe soil moisture over the Earth&#8217;s landmasses and salinity over the oceans. Data from SMOS will lead to a better understanding of the Earth&#8217;s water cycle which has important effects on the climate. SMOS will also study the frozen regions of our planet, known as the cryosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n SMOS will be launched together with another ESA satelite PROBA-2, to test new technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2009\/09\/smos_-_science\/11132684-3-eng-GB\/SMOS_-_Science_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nA better knowledge of our planet behaviour; this is the objective of SMOS that will be launched on 2 November from the Russian cosmodrome of Plesetsk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) is ESA&#8217;s second Earth Explorer satellite under its Living Planet Programme to go into orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n SMOS will primarily observe soil moisture over the Earth&#8217;s landmasses and salinity over the oceans. Data from SMOS will lead to a better understanding of the Earth&#8217;s water cycle which has important effects on the climate. SMOS will also study the frozen regions of our planet, known as the cryosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n SMOS will be launched together with another ESA satelite PROBA-2, to test new technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}