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Delta II rocket A Delta II rocket launching with the Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, June 10, 2011.

Aquarius/SAC-D

space mission
Also known as: SAC-D/Aquarius
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Erik Gregersen
Erik Gregersen is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica, specializing in the physical sciences and technology. Before joining Britannica in 2007, he worked at the University of Chicago Press on the...
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Aquarius/SAC-D, joint U.S.-Argentine space mission to map the salinity of Earth’s oceans. Aquarius/Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas-D (SAC-D) was launched by a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on June 10, 2011. Salinity, or salt content, plays a major role in the movement of ocean currents and traces the amount of evaporation from and precipitation onto the ocean that occurs in the water cycle. Aquarius was a U.S.-built instrument consisting of a...

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