Technicians work on the back of the Aquarius instrument in a clean room. The NASA-built primary instrument on the spacecraft, will take NASA's first space-based measurements of ocean surface salinity, a key missing variable in satellite observations of Earth that links ocean circulation, the global balance of freshwater and climate. The mi
Technicians work on the back of the Aquarius instrument in a clean room.
The NASA-built primary instrument on the spacecraft, will take NASA’s first space-based measurements of ocean surface salinity, a key missing variable in satellite observations of Earth that links ocean circulation, the global balance of freshwater and climate. The mission is scheduled to launch in June.
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