18 Sep '12, 8pm

Rogue radars get in the way of drought forecasts.

Rogue radars get in the way of drought forecasts.

Illustration: ESA/AOES Medialab Drought Detective: The European Space Agency's SMOS satellite faced radio interference in its quest to map the world's soil moisture. Click on image to enlarge. 18 September 2012—For scientists who want to create an early-warning system for drought , satellite data is gold. So it was with much anticipation that the European Space Agency (ESA), in November 2009, launched its first-ever Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite for measuring global soil-moisture levels, a crucial gauge for drought monitoring and prediction. But as soon as operators in France flipped on SMOS, trouble hit. The radiometer picked up bright, high-power, man-made signals that weren’t supposed to be there. “We see signals that are much stronger than what we would expect from natural emissions of the Earth’s surface,” says Susanne Mecklenburg, the SMOS mission...

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