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The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a satellite to provide the first global maps of water and moisture distribution.
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission was launched early today from Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia.
SMOS will map both sea surface salinity and soil moisture to survey the water cycle between oceans, the atmosphere and land.
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