Artist’s illustration of the Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft, scheduled for launch in May 2010. It will be the first NASA instrument to measure sea salinity from space. Credit: NASA/JPL via Science Daily The salinity of the ocean says a lot about climate change and impacts of a warmer globe. That’s something scientists announced

a couple years ago . Now, research is turning towards how the oceans’ saltiness is changing to try and determine what we can expect for floods, droughts, and even warmer temperatures. So, a project i…

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Scientists Launching Satellite to Measure Saltiness of Seas