New system giving SMAP scientists the speed they need
Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 15:20
in Astronomy & Space
For scientists now studying the voluminous amounts of data collected daily by NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, speed is everything. A new NASA-developed data-transmission technology installed at the U.S. Antarctic Program's McMurdo Station in Antarctica is giving them the speed they need.