{"id":685027,"date":"2021-03-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685027"},"modified":"2021-03-24T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:00:00","slug":"smos-detects-space-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685027","title":{"rendered":"SMOS detects space weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SMOS_detects_space_weather_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:02:20<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/SMOS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SMOS<\/a> satellite carries a novel interferometric radiometer that operates at a frequency of 1.4 GHz in the L-band microwave range of the electromagnetic spectrum to capture &#8216;brightness temperature&#8217; images. These images correspond to radiation emitted from Earth&#8217;s surface, which scientists then use to derive information on soil moisture and ocean salinity. However, because of the wide field of view of SMOS&#8217; antenna, it doesn&#8217;t just capture signals emitted from Earth&#8217;s surface, but also signals from the Sun \u2013 which create noise in the brightness temperature images. These stray signals are valuable data for helping to monitor solar activity.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/SMOS\/Water_mission_takes_on_space_weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Water mission takes on space weather<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Credits: \u00a9Planetary Visions (credit: ESA\/Planetary Visions)<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2021\/03\/SMOS_detects_space_weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SMOS detects space weather<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:02:20 The SMOS satellite carries a novel interferometric radiometer that operates at a frequency of 1.4 GHz in the L-band microwave range of the electromagnetic spectrum to capture &#8216;brightness&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":685028,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685027","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/685028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}