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June 10, 2011 08:19 am PDT
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Aquarius satellite launches today, will measure ocean salinity from space
Eilieen Gunn writes, If all goes well, the Aquarius satellite, which will map the salinity of the oceans, collecting more data in a couple of months than is contained in the entire 125-year historical record, will launch this morning (Friday. June 10) at 7:20 am, PDT. (That's 10:20 am EDT and 2:20 pm GMT.) I will watch, because this is more than just another great launch, another extension of the human mind and eye into the cosmos. This one is personal. For more than thirty years, my brother, John Gunn, has measured and analyzed ocean currents and the salinity and temperature that contribute to their function and variability. He has thrown current meters into Arctic and Antarctic waters from small vessels in frigid temperatures, recovered the meters, and analyzed the data. He has spent months in a submarine beneath the polar icecap--back when we had a permanent icecap--collecting data about how the seas function. For the past eight years, he has worked as part of a large international project involving teams of researchers from NASA, JPL, and Argentina's Comisipn Nacional de Actividades Espaciales to launch the satellite that will, he hopes, go up this morning. This is what he wrote to his family about it:...
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