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Looking for Salt, Seeing Soil Moisture
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Looking for Salt, Seeing Soil Moisture

The Aquarius instrument was designed to study ocean salinity, but it is also making an important contribution to studies of the water cycle on land.

Published Jul 15, 2014

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Soil Moisture in the United States
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Soil Moisture in the United States

Views from the ground and from space are helping scientists understand how soil moisture affects U.S. agriculture.

Published Nov 25, 2015

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Soil Composition Across the U.S.
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Soil Composition Across the U.S.

The proportion of sand, silt, and clay contained in soil across the U.S. affects the amount of water it can hold.

Published Jan 9, 2016

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Soggy Soil in the Eastern United States
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Soggy Soil in the Eastern United States

An extreme rainfall event saturated the soil along the U.S. East Coast.

Published Oct 8, 2015

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Soil Moisture Around the World
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Soil Moisture Around the World

Satellite sensors uncover a global view of the water hidden between soil particles.

Published Nov 12, 2015

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Satellites Eye Winter Cover Crops
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Satellites Eye Winter Cover Crops

Many farmers in Maryland plant winter cover crops—a practice that reduces how much pollution flows into Chesapeake Bay.

Published Apr 26, 2017

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NASA Soil Moisture Data Advances Global Crop Forecasts
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NASA Soil Moisture Data Advances Global Crop Forecasts

The amount of water contained in the top few centimeters of soil is small on a global scale, but it is critical for agriculture analysts trying to monitor commodity production and humanitarian need.

Published Jun 2, 2018

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Soil Moisture Satellite Observes Harvey’s Wrath
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Soil Moisture Satellite Observes Harvey’s Wrath

Harvey dropped buckets of rain on areas that were already very dry or very wet.

Published Aug 31, 2017

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Precision Farming
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Precision Farming

Published Jan 30, 2001

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Soil Moisture Maps
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Soil Moisture Maps

Published Sep 5, 2003

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Canadian Land of Lakes
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Canadian Land of Lakes

The landscape of the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut Territory was carved by ice and water.

Published Jul 13, 2012

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IJsselmeer, Netherlands
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IJsselmeer, Netherlands

Beginning in 1932, Dutch engineers completed a dike across the Zuiderzee to create a freshwater lake. Engineers later used pumps to drain water from the area, creating expanses of usable land known as polders. These images show changes in the land cover in one such polder between 1980 and 2007.

Published Aug 3, 2008

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Madagascar’s Muddy Rivers
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Madagascar’s Muddy Rivers

Gullies in the highlands called lavakas are a major source of sediment.

Published Feb 10, 2018

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A Mid-winter Drought in Australia
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A Mid-winter Drought in Australia

Eastern Australia has been hit particularly hard by drought, taking a toll on the region’s soil moisture and agriculture.

Published Aug 9, 2018

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The Most Erosive Area on the Padma
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The Most Erosive Area on the Padma

As the shape of river changes over decades, the upper reaches show the most change, particularly with widening and meandering bends.

Published Aug 13, 2018

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Great Escarpment, South Africa
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Great Escarpment, South Africa

This photo-like image of South Africa on April 12, 2010, shows the rugged cliffs of the continent-spanning Great Escarpment.

Published Apr 24, 2010

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Soil Moisture Mission Rockets into Orbit
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Soil Moisture Mission Rockets into Orbit

The SMAP mission lifts off to make the most accurate, high-resolution soil moisture measurements ever collected from space.

Published Feb 1, 2015

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Fall Colors in Pennsylvania
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Fall Colors in Pennsylvania

Resembling a work of art, this Landsat image of fall colors in the mountains of central Pennsylvania illustrates both the yearly cycle of change in forests and fields and the slow shaping of a landscape over millions of years.

Published Dec 3, 2008

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Floods in Eastern Europe
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Floods in Eastern Europe

Published Jul 31, 2008

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