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When will NASA launch "Aquarius"?

When will NASA launch "Aquarius"?

Asked by: growthy in Science » Space
Settled on 06/10/2011 19:32 Settled by Super Userkruijs
Winning option:ter June 9, 2011 The observatory was successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on June 10, 2011 at 7:20:13 AM PDT

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aquarius/news/aquarius20110610.html

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at or before June 9, 2011
after June 9, 2011
other
other
mission cancellation or anything

Background

Aquarius/SAC-D is an international mission involving NASA and Argentina's space agency, Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales. Aquarius, the JPL-built primary instrument on the mission, is designed to provide monthly global maps of how the concentration of dissolved salt (known as salinity) varies on the ocean surface. Salinity is a key tracer for understanding the ocean’s role in Earth’s water cycle and tracking and understanding ocean circulation.

By measuring ocean salinity from space, Aquarius will provide new insights into how the massive natural interplay of freshwater moving among the ocean, atmosphere and sea ice influences Earth’s ocean circulation, weather and climate.

The Aquarius mission will provide the first-ever global maps of salt concentrations in the ocean surface needed to understand heat transport and storage in the ocean.

http://aquarius.nasa.gov/

Find similar: NASA, Aquarius, ocean salinity, water cycle

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