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Ambassador Wayne met on March 3 with Amit Sen, the Aquarius Project Leader at NASA, and Bob Durham, the project's system engineer, who gave him an overview of the project.
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AMBASSADOR MEETS NASA AQUARIUS PROJECT MANAGER
3 de marzo de 2009
Ambassador Wayne met on March 3 with Amit Sen, the Aquarius Project Leader at NASA, and Bob Durham, the project's system engineer, who gave him an overview of the project. The Aquarius mission is being developed in an international partnership with CONAE, Argentina’s space agency, which has successfully developed three consecutive science application satellites in cooperation with NASA. More than 17 university, corporate, government and international institutions are also involved in the Aquarius mission.
Targeted for launch in May 2010, the Aquarius mission will perform a first-of-a-kind exploratory measurement that will help answer fundamental questions about how our planet works and how it may change in the future. It is the first satellite mission specifically designed to provide monthly global measurements of how sea water salinity varies at the ocean surface, which is a key to studying the links between ocean circulation and global water cycles.
Salinity variations modify the interaction between ocean circulation and the global water cycle, which in turn affects the ocean’s capacity to store and transport heat and regulate Earth's climate. The mission will provide further understanding of how climate variations induce changes in the global ocean circulation and how our oceans respond to climate change and the water cycle.
