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NEWS
Discover the latest news on the European Space Agency's Earth Observation activities. Learn all about new data availability and how ESA's missions are performing.
News - Data Release news
16 May 2018Eight years of SMOS Arctic sea ice thickness level now available from SMOS Data dissemination portal
Daily maps of sea ice thickness based on SMOS Observations, covering the winter seasons in the Arctic for the period of October-April from year 2010/2011 to year 2017/2018, are now available.
News - Success Stories
13 May 2019ESA's Earth Explorers surpassing expectations
In this video, learn how each Earth Explorer mission is contributing to Earth science, and changing the way we look at our beloved planet.
News - Success Stories
14 May 2019Mapping salty waters
The length and precision with which climate scientists can track the salinity, or saltiness, of the oceans is set to improve dramatically.
News - Events and Proceedings
21 Oct 2019Special event for 10th anniversary of SMOS
Earth Explorers for Climate - The contribution from SMOS - an event to mark the 10th anniversary of SMOS mission.
News - Data Release news
17 Apr 2020New SMOS sea surface wind speed products now available
The SMOS Wind Data Service provides, in near real time (NRT), surface wind speed over the ocean derived from the brightness temperature measurements of SMOS.
News - Success Stories
24 Mar 2021Water mission takes on space weather
Adding to SMOS’ list of talents, new findings show that what was considered noise in the mission’s data can actually be used to monitor solar activity and space weather, which can damage communication and navigation systems.
News - Infographics
30 Mar 2021SMOS - ESA's soil moisture and ocean salinity mission
Learn more about the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission in our latest infographic.
News - Data Release news
28 May 2021SMOS level 1 and level 2 products new baseline is now available
New versions of the SMOS processors for level 1 and 2 were deployed in the operational ground segment on 25 May 2021.
News - Data Release news
3 Aug 2021New SMOS Level 1 Near Real Time processing baseline released
A new version of the SMOS level 1 Near Real Time processor - version 724 - was deployed in the operational ground segment on 2 August 2021.
News - Data Release news
3 Aug 2021New SMOS Level 2 Near Real Time Neural Network Soil Moisture baseline is released
A new version of the SMOS level 2 Near Real Time processor - version 300 - was deployed in the operational ground segment on 2 August 2021.
News - Data Release news
4 Aug 2021New SMOS Near Real Time Sea Surface Wind Speed new baseline is released
A new version of the SMOS Sea Surface Wind Speed processor - version 300 - was deployed at IFREMER and ESA operational ground segments on 4 August 2021.
News - Data Release news
18 Nov 2021SMOS sea ice thickness Arctic winter season 2021/2022 data available
SMOS Sea Ice thickness level 3 and level 4 data products are now available for the Arctic winter season 2021/2022.
News - General News
21 Dec 2021Updated SMOS documentation available
Updated versions of several SMOS data documents are now available.
News - Data Release news
18 Jan 2022SMOS sea ice thickness reprocessed data now available
The reprocessed SMOS level 3 and 4 sea ice thickness products over the Arctic are now available from the ESA SMOS Dissemination Service.
News - Announcement of Opportunity updates
31 Jan 2022Swarm DISC Deadline Extension
Swarm DISC Invitation to Tender deadline extension for SD-ITT-4.4: Swarm for Space Weather
News - Thematic area articles
2 Feb 2022Satellite data boost global understanding of land surface
Understanding our changing land surface is essential in the study of climate change. Satellites are used to monitor changes to the material that covers Earth’s surface, so-called land cover, such as vegetation and water.
News - Success Stories
1 Mar 2022How Envisat helped to shape global understanding of Earth’s systems
Twenty years have passed since a ground-breaking European spacecraft designed to deliver unprecedented insight into the planet’s changing environment was lofted into orbit.
News - Thematic area articles
2 Mar 2022How space data are transforming the global food system
European Earth observation activities are accelerating a data-driven transformation in the agriculture sector that is helping farmers adapt to the dual challenges of climate change and population increase.
News - General News
24 Mar 2022New paper “Swarm Langmuir probes' data quality validation and future improvements” published
The paper “Swarm Langmuir probes' data quality validation and future improvements” by F. Catapano et al. has been published in the Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI) journal in March 2022.
News - Data Release news
24 Mar 2022SMOS L2 Sea Surface Salinity products documentation updates
SMOS L2 Sea Surface Salinity product validation report is now available.