iUnited Press International: U.S. space agency scientists say they are preparing a satellite to measure the salinity of Earth’s oceans. The Aquarius satellite, to be launched during May 2010, will be the first National Aeronautics and Space Administration instrument to track sea salinity from space. Sea saltiness today, as it has been for centuries, is measured by samples taken by ships’ crews or, more recently, by automated buoys. But there are vast areas of the ocean where salinity has never been …
NASA to measure ocean salinity from space
iUnited Press International: U.S. space agency scientists say they are preparing a satellite to measure the salinity of Earth’s oceans. The Aquarius satellite, to be launched during May 2010, will be the first National Aeronautics and Space Administration instrument to track sea salinity from space. Sea saltiness today, as it has been for centuries, is measured by samples taken by ships’ crews or, more recently, by automated buoys. But there are vast areas of the ocean where salinity has never been …
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