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Looking for Salt, Seeing Soil Moisture

The Aquarius instrument was designed to study ocean salinity, but it is also making an important contribution to studies of the water cycle on land.


NASA image by Trent Schindler, NASA Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio. Caption adapted by Mike Carlowicz from a story by Maria-Jose Vinas, NASA Earth Science News Team.

Published July 15, 2014
Data acquired August 25, 2013

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