The critical task of closely monitoring the saltiness of Earth's oceans is being facilitated from space by the European Space Agency's SMOS and NASA's Aquarius missions, but in slightly different ways.
NASA, ESA Team on Arctic Mission
Marking another remarkable collaborative effort, the European Space Agency and NASA representatives met over the Arctic Ocean recently to perform some carefully coordinated flights directly under CryoSat orbiting above.
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NASA Satellites Capture a Stronger La Nińa
A new Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 satellite image of the Pacific Ocean indicates the current La Nińa event in the eastern Pacific remained strong during December 2010.
“This latest event appears to be one of the strongest ones over this time period,” says Climatologist Bill Patzert of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “It’s already impacting weather and climate all around the planet.”
