Measuring salinity in ocean water allows researchers to infer important information about climate change and variability, as sea surface salinity can act as a “rain gauge” and is used as an indicator ...

An international spacecraft that will take NASA's first space-based measurements of ocean surface salinity has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Aquarius/SAC-D ...

SEATTLE — NASA launched an international satellite mission June 10 that will measure the ocean’s saltiness from hundreds of kilometers above Earth. The Aquarius/SAC-D satellite soared into space at ...

PASADENA, Calif., April 30 (UPI) -- U.S. space agency scientists say they are preparing a satellite to measure the salinity of Earth's oceans. The Aquarius satellite, to be launched during May 2010, ...

A rocket carrying the European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite blasted off successfully today. SMOS is the first-ever satellite to attempt to measure ocean salinity from ...

While NASA spends a lot of time looking up and out toward the stars, the agency also has another important role: using satellites in space to look back at our own planet. Earth observation is crucial ...

A highly anticipated NASA mission to study ocean salinity — which blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2011 — came to an end June 8 when the spacecraft that carries NASA’s Aquarius instrument ...

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Soils have a natural characteristic called the cation exchange capacity (CEC) that allows them to hold (and exchange) cations (e.g., Ca+2 or Na+). These cations are held tight enough on the CEC that ...

Refractometer is precision optical instrument that operates on the principle- as the concentration or density of a solution increases, its refractive index changes proportionately. The refractive ...