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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 - Operational News
SMOS data distribution resumed
SMOS data distribution to end users was resumed on 12 March 2024 after confirmation of the adequate quality of the current
News - Success Stories
Satellite data predicts lower wheat crop yield
Title: Current drought situation in Ebro basin Description: The SMOS soil-moisture-based drought monitor is updated monthly
News - General News
ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025
Acting like the spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, it generates electrical currents and thus the continuously changing
News - Events and Proceedings
SMOS data advances space weather and ionospheric research
Title: Tracking the solar activity cycle using SMOS data Description: This graph shows the “rise” of our current solar activity
News - Operational News
SMOS data outage since 22 February 2024
spacecraft has been back in nominal mode since 25 February and on 27 February, the MIRAS instrument was switched on and is currently
News - Data Release news
SMOS sea ice thickness reprocessed data now available
baseline v724 and with the latest level 3 and 4 sea ice thickness processors baseline v3.3 and v204 respectively, which are currently
News - Events and Proceedings
Special event for 10th anniversary of SMOS
of measurements and generation of FCDRs and TCDRs SMOS as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Synergies with current
News - Success Stories
Synergy of space data helps modernise irrigation systems
A key part of modernising irrigation systems, however, is gaining accurate information on current water management methods
News - Success Stories
SMOS data improve estimates of rainfall in Africa
Currently, however, only two precipitation products use this information.
News - Success Stories
Gravity Field Models from Swarm data
Currently, the GRACE-FO satellites launched in May 2018 are the sole dedicated provider of these data, while previously the
News - Thematic area articles
Transforming space data into climate action
By combining high-quality data from both current and previous missions, scientists are improving their understanding of the
News - Thematic area articles
Space data support Earth’s ecosystems
Currently, it is not possible to measure photosynthetic activity from space, but the forthcoming FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX
News - General News
Ensuring soil moisture data quality with reference measurements
for establishing stable, long-term fiducial reference networks that can serve as a benchmark for the entire lifetime of current