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Views from the ground and from space are helping scientists understand how soil moisture affects U.S. agriculture.
Published Nov 25, 2015
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
Satellite sensors uncover a global view of the water hidden between soil particles.
Published Nov 12, 2015
Eastern Australia has been hit particularly hard by drought, taking a toll on the region’s soil moisture and agriculture.
Published Aug 9, 2018Image of the Day Land Water Drought Human Presence Remote Sensing
An extreme rainfall event saturated the soil along the U.S. East Coast.
Published Oct 8, 2015
Harvey dropped buckets of rain on areas that were already very dry or very wet.
Published Aug 31, 2017
The SMAP mission lifts off to make the most accurate, high-resolution soil moisture measurements ever collected from space.
Published Feb 1, 2015
Twin satellites are assessing the state of soil moisture and groundwater on the continent and around the world.
Published Apr 6, 2020
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
A hot, dry growing season has scorched soybean and corn crops in the Pampas.
Published Apr 17, 2018
Long-term rainfall deficits, heat waves, and increased evaporation have depleted some of the groundwater supply beneath central and eastern Europe.
Published Jun 25, 2020
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.
Published Jan 19, 2013
