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Jimmy Underhill, drone technician for Agribotix, holds a drone at a farm in rural Weld County, Colorado

There may be help from space for farmers! This help might also play a hand in road-building, the weather forecast and halting melting ice in the Arctic. NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive mission monitors how wet the soil is around the world – and it does it from space! NASA first started working on the SMAP in effort to improve forecasts of hazards such as drought and floods.