Launchpad: Space Age Technologies Measure Soil Moisture
Learn how NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission, or SMAP, will use new technologies to help answer questions raised in the National Research Councils' Decadal Survey. See what kind of modeling and forecasting applications the data from this mission will provide as it measures the soil moisture that cools Earth's surface and provides water to the atmosphere and plants.
Activities
Grades 9 through 12
- Project WET The Breathing Boreal Forest
- GLOBE Pedosphere - Soil Moisture (SMAP), Soil Moisture - Gravimetric, Soil Moisture - Sensors
- My NASA Data Geosphere - Soil Moisture
- NASA GLOBE A Field View of Soil -- Digging Around
- NASA GLOBE Earth System Science Posters
- NASA GLOBE Just Passing Through
- NASA GLOBE Soils as Sponges: How Much Water Does Soil Hold?
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Precipitation Education: Water in the Geosphere
- NASA JPL SMAP
- Project WET Soil Moisture - Dirt to Dinner