From left, NASA Kennedy Space Center Public Affairs Officer George Diller; Christine Bonniksen, SMAP program executive, NASA Headquarters; Tim Dunn, NASA launch manager, Kennedy Space Center; Vernon Thorp, United Launch Alliance program manager, NASA Missions; Kent Kellogg, SMAP project manager, JPL; Dara Entekhabi, SMAP science team leader, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Lt. John Martin, launch weather officer, 30th Operations Support Squadron, Vandenberg Air Force Base discuss the planned launch of the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, NASA’s first Earth-observing sate
From left, NASA Kennedy Space Center Public Affairs Officer George Diller; Christine Bonniksen, SMAP program executive, NASA Headquarters; Tim Dunn, NASA launch manager, Kennedy Space Center; Vernon Thorp, United Launch Alliance program manager, NASA Missions; Kent Kellogg, SMAP project manager, JPL; Dara Entekhabi, SMAP science team leader, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Lt. John Martin, launch weather officer, 30th Operations Support Squadron, Vandenberg Air Force Base discuss the planned launch of the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, NASA’s first Earth-observing satellite designed to collect global observations of surface soil moisture and its freeze/thaw state, during a press briefing, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. SMAP will provide high resolution global measurements of soil moisture from space. The data will be used to enhance scientists' understanding of the processes that link Earth's water, energy, and carbon cycles.
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