ECOSTRESS
NASA's ECOSTRESS mission seeks to better understand how much water plants need and how they respond to stress.
Two processes show how plants use water: evaporation and transpiration. Evaporation of water from the soil surrounding plants affects how much water
the plants can use. Transpiration is the process of plants losing water through tiny pores in their leaves. ECOSTRESS measures the temperature of
plants and land to understand combined evaporation and transpiration, known as evapotranspiration.
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