For Aquarius, sampling seas no 'grain of salt' task
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 12:30
in Astronomy & Space
The breakthrough moment for oceanographer Gary Lagerloef, the principal investigator for NASA's new Aquarius mission, came in 1991. That's when he knew it would be possible to make precise measurements of ocean salinity from space. It has taken nearly two decades to turn that possibility into a reality.