NASA launched a satellite that will help scientist for better prediction of climate change
by Aquarius, the NASA-built primary instrument on the spacecraft, will take the space agency’s first space-based measurements of ocean surface salinity, a key missing variable in satellite observations of Earth that links ocean circulation, the global balance of freshwater and climate.
Aquarius/SAC-D Sea Surface Salinity satellite was sent by NASA, Friday at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This mission is also part of President Barack Obama’s 2010 pledge to focus NASA more on “science that will garner tangible benefits, helping us to protect our environment for future generations”.
This project can help scientists for the better understanding of climate change especially in Pacific. It will generate maps of sea salt movements. It was also a joint effort with the Argentine space Agency.
The mission also served as an environmental data-gathering project for Brazil, France, Italy and Canada.
“The full and proper software for the launch vehicle to steer through upper level winds has been loaded aboard and verified,” the space agency said.
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