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Go-to guide to Third Party Mission data offering
27 Feb 2024
ESA’s latest Third Party Missions Data Access Guide has been published, providing technical details and information on available data collections for all current or past Third Party Missions.
New reanalysis dataset impacts SMOS Level 3 and 4 sea ice thickness
19 Feb 2024
On 24 January 2024 the JRA55 reanalysis dataset was terminated and updated with the Japanese Reanalysis for Three Quarters of a Century.
Highlighting the value of SMOS data in space weather applications
17 Jan 2024
Data from ESA’s SMOS mission are driving many space weather applications, ranging from air navigation, characterisation of solar flares, space weather modelling and ionospheric electron content mapping.
SMOS Tools updates
17 July 2023
Updates for two SMOS tools have been released, offering new features and improvements.
Scientists to showcase value of Earth observation data at EGU
21 Apr 2023
Remote sensing scientists are getting ready to present innovative and exciting applications of satellite data at the European Geosciences Union general assembly which will take place from 24 to 28 April in Vienna, Austria.
Overachieving SMOS mission primed for continued success
27 Mar 2023
ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission (SMOS) was the second Earth Explorer launched in 2009. Over 13 years on, having already vastly exceeded its predicted lifetime and initial objectives, the mission has been further extended until at least the end of 2025.
ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025
21 Mar 2023
Since 2009, ESA’s Earth Explorer missions have pioneered breakthrough technologies and transformed our understanding of Earth’s system, from its core to the outer stretches of the atmosphere.
Pioneering science missions: Summarising ESA’s Earth Explorers
8 Feb 2023
Designed for research purposes, ESA's Earth Explorer missions are dedicated to monitoring parts of Earth’s system. Learn more about the Earth Explorers in this video.
New version of the SMOS-CryoSat level 4 sea ice thickness product is now available
30 Jan 2023
The new version 205 of the merged SMOS-CryoSat level 4 sea ice thickness product is now available on the SMOS dissemination service
ESA invites scientists to submit abstracts for EGU 2023
14 Dec 2022
ESA is calling for researchers to submit abstracts for sessions at the next General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2023).
SMOS L2 Sea Surface Salinity products documentation updates
24 Mar 2022
SMOS L2 Sea Surface Salinity product validation report is now available.
SMOS sea ice thickness Arctic winter season 2021/2022 data available
18 Nov 2021
SMOS Sea Ice thickness level 3 and level 4 data products are now available for the Arctic winter season 2021/2022.
SMOS level 1 and level 2 products new baseline is now available
28 May 2021
New versions of the SMOS processors for level 1 and 2 were deployed in the operational ground segment on 25 May 2021.
Eight years of SMOS Arctic sea ice thickness level now available from SMOS Data dissemination portal
16 May 2018
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.