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Aquarius/SAC-D arrives at launch site

Submit on Thursday, March 31st, 2011 22:59

An international spacecraft that will take NASA’s first space-based measurements of ocean surface salinity has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Aquarius/SAC-D mission will provide scientists with a key missing variable in satellite observations of Earth that links ocean circulation, the global balance of freshwater, and climate.

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