A short video animation demonstrating the SMAP spacecraft
PREVIEW
Shows the swath path illustrating the scanning pattern of the antenna.
A preview of the what's to come from SMAP
The USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) has launched a web-based U.S. crop vegetation condition assessment and monitoring application: VegScape (http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/VegScape/).
A simple illustration of the major elements of the energy cycle is shown in the figure.
Promotional video for the NASA's Earth Campaign
This conceptual diagram relates variation in regional domain-averaged soil moisture to variation in total crop yield.
An animation of the SMAP mission
The water cycle is illustrated here.
The SMAP antenna fully unfurled during testing in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility.
Artist’s conception of SMAP taking data from orbit.
The first stage, along with its solid rocket motors, lift the vehicle out of the Earth’s lower atmosphere. The second stage steers the SMAP spacecraft into the correct orbit using its onboard guidance system.
A video about the SMAP GLOBE program
SMAP Observatory labeled and combined.
The global carbon cycle is the complex set of interactions involving several different carbon-based gases (among them the so-called “greenhouse gases”) that take place between the atmosphere, land, and oceans of the Earth.
NASA held a media briefing at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) Thursday, Jan. 8, at NASA Headquarters in Washington to discuss the upcoming Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission.
The figure shows standard deviation of the difference between satellite observations and ECMWF model values for ASCAT soil moisture (m3.m-3).
SMAP Science Data System architecture and data flows.
This video tells the stories of SMAP Applications Early Adopters (post-launch update).
The full extent of SMAP’s flight and ground operations from Launch through the end of the prime mission include data taking, ongoing calibration and validation of the data, and application of the data to a variety of fields.
SMAP boom deployment animation
SMAP antenna deployment animation
Two views of the SMAP Observatory, showing the Instrument (upper portion) and Spacecraft (lower portion) with the large antenna and solar array stowed for launch. This compact shape is needed to fit comfortably inside the launch vehicle’s protective fairing.
While pointed toward the sun, the Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP, satellite separated from the Delta II upper stage as it was deployed into Earth orbit. Liftoff took place from Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex 2 at 6:22 a.m. PST (9:22 a.m. EST).
