{"id":118744,"date":"2015-01-31T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/?p=118744"},"modified":"2020-10-27T14:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T18:36:50","slug":"nasa-launches-soil-moisture-mapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/2015\/01\/31\/nasa-launches-soil-moisture-mapper\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Launches Soil Moisture Mapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Launches Soil Moisture Mapper: SMAP (Soil Moisture Active\/Passive). Launched on a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Ca., on January 31, 2015, SMAP will provide high resolution, space-based measurements of soil moisture and its state \u2014 frozen or thawed \u2014 a new capability that will allow scientists to better predict natural hazards of extreme weather, climate change, floods and droughts, and help reduce uncertainties in our understanding of Earth\u2019s water, energy and carbon cycles.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: NASA Launches Soil Moisture Mapper\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UoIu0z8orC8?feature=oembed\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen style=\"width: 500px; height: 281px; border: 0px solid #000;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Launches Soil Moisture Mapper: SMAP (Soil Moisture Active\/Passive). Launched on a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Ca., on January 31, 2015, SMAP will provide high resolution, space-based measurements of soil moisture and its state \u2014 frozen or thawed \u2014 a new capability that will allow scientists to better predict natural hazards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118745,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118744\/revisions\/118745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}