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SMAP - Soil Moisture Active Passive - Mapping soil moisture and freeze/thaw state from Space
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It's active. It's passive. And it's got a big, spinning lasso. Scheduled for launch on Jan. 29, 2015, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)


SMAP will be working with the Texas Soil Observation Network to help water managers in Texas.


NASA’s innovative soil moisture mapper, a new environmental satellite launching in January, has been fueled up for blastoff from Vandenberg Air Force

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