Views from the ground and from space are helping scientists understand how soil moisture affects U.S. agriculture.
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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.
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Satellite sensors uncover a global view of the water hidden between soil particles.
Eastern Australia has been hit particularly hard by drought, taking a toll on the region’s soil moisture and agriculture.
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An extreme rainfall event saturated the soil along the U.S. East Coast.
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Harvey dropped buckets of rain on areas that were already very dry or very wet.
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The SMAP mission lifts off to make the most accurate, high-resolution soil moisture measurements ever collected from space.
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Twin satellites are assessing the state of soil moisture and groundwater on the continent and around the world.
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The proportion of sand, silt, and clay contained in soil across the U.S. affects the amount of water it can hold.
A hot, dry growing season has scorched soybean and corn crops in the Pampas.
Long-term rainfall deficits, heat waves, and increased evaporation have depleted some of the groundwater supply beneath central and eastern Europe.
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Though a series of winter storms provided some relief, a pair of satellites operated by NASA shows that groundwater supplies remained unusually low in many parts of the country.
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