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This is a digital rendering of what the Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft will look like after its scheduled launch into orbit in June. Aquarius will give NASA its first space-based readings of salinity levels at the surface of the oceans—a heretofore missing link in climate modeling.











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Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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