Science and Exploration

ESA SMOS Mission Backgrounder

By Marc Boucher
December 21, 2009
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On Sunday, November 1 at 8:50 p.m. eastern standard time the European Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite will be launched on a Russian Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia.

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