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DescriptionNASA's Aquarius Sees Salty Shifts.jpg	English: NASA¹s 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.
Date	28 February 2013, 21:15:17
Source	http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aquarius/news/data-first-year.html
Author	NASA/GSFC/JPL-Caltech

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