Entekhabi will lead science team for NASA satellite mission to map Earth’s water cycle
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Apr 25, 2008
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25
2008
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MIT Professor Dara Entekhabi will lead the science team designing a NASA satellite mission to make global soil moisture and freeze/thaw measurements, data essential to the accuracy of weather forecasts and predictions of global carbon cycle and climate. NASA announced recently that the Soil Moisture Active-Passive mission (SMAP) is scheduled to launch December 2012. Read news release.