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Summary
This image, created at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL, shows the Soil Moisture Active Passive SMAP mission, specifically depicting how the scanning antenna will fly in space and the swath coverage over the Earth.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Free Space artwork and designs. Since its creation in 1958, NASA has been taking copyright-free pictures of the Earth, the Moon, the planets, and other astronomical objects inside and outside our Solar System. Under United States copyright law, works created by the U.S. federal government or its agencies, such as NASA are in public domain and cannot be copyrighted. NASA pictures are legally in the public domain.
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earth
soil moisture active passive smap
jpl
jet propulsion laboratory
smap
flys
smap flys
artist
concept
earth from space
nasa
Date
12/07/2011
in collections
Source
NASA
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Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)