{"id":685041,"date":"2021-03-24T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685041"},"modified":"2021-03-24T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:20:00","slug":"water-mission-takes-on-space-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685041","title":{"rendered":"Water mission takes on space weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SMOS_turns_to_the_Sun_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"SMOS turns to the Sun\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For well over a decade, ESA\u2019s SMOS satellite has been delivering a wealth of data to map moisture in soil and salt in the surface waters of the oceans for a better understanding of the processes driving the water cycle. While addressing key scientific questions, this exceptional Earth Explorer has repeatedly surpassed expectations by returning a wide range of unexpected results, often leading to practical applications that improve everyday life. Adding to SMOS\u2019 list of talents, new findings show that what was considered noise in the mission\u2019s data can actually be used to monitor solar activity and space weather, which can damage communication and navigation systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/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>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For well over a decade, ESA\u2019s SMOS satellite has been delivering a wealth of data to map moisture in soil and salt in the surface waters of the oceans for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":685042,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685041","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\/685041","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=685041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/685042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}