NASA's Ocean Salinity Pathfinder Celebrates its First Year in Orbit
December 14, 2012
NASA's Aquarius instrument has been orbiting the Earth for a year, measuring changes in salinity, or salt concentration, in the surface of the oceans. The Aquarius team released last September this first global map of ocean saltiness, a composite of the first two and a half weeks of data since the instrument became operational on August 25. Credit: NASA/GSFC/JPL-Caltech
Topics:
Environment, Oceanography, Physical geography, Spaceflight, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Salinity, Earth Observing System, Aquarius, Earth, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
