{"id":2381,"date":"2015-01-29T11:16:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2015-01-29T11:16:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:16:26","slug":"nasas-soil-moisture-active-passive-smap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/nasas-soil-moisture-active-passive-smap\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2383\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg\" alt=\"SMAP Prelaunch\" width=\"946\" height=\"630\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg 946w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\">The sun sets behind Space Launch Complex 2 (SLC-2) with the Delta II rocket and the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory protected by the service structure on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\">SMAP is NASA\u2019s first Earth-observing satellite designed to collect global observations of surface soil moisture and its freeze\/thaw state. SMAP will provide high resolution global measurements of soil moisture from space. The data is said to be used to enhance scientists&#8217; understanding of the processes that link Earth&#8217;s water, energy, and carbon cycles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description The sun sets behind Space Launch Complex 2 (SLC-2) with the Delta II rocket and the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory protected by the service structure on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. SMAP is NASA\u2019s first Earth-observing satellite designed to collect global observations of surface soil moisture and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",946,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",750,499,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",750,499,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",946,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",946,630,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",946,630,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",856,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",600,400,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",600,400,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",736,490,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",541,360,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",95,63,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",640,426,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201501270012hq.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/feature\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Feature<\/a>","tag_info":"Feature","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}