International Spacecraft Carrying NASA’s Aquarius Ends Operations (NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

(Source: NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) MORE STORIES This video provides a global tour of sea surface salinity using measurements taken by NASA's Aquarius instrument aboard the Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft, from December 2011 through December 2012. Red represents areas of high salinity, while blue represents areas of low salinity. Aquarius is a focused effort to measure sea surface salinity and will provide the global view of salinity variability needed for climate studies. The mission is a collaboration between NASA and the Space Agency of Argentina (Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales). Artist's rendering of the Aquarius/SAC-D satellite as it would appear in...