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hi I marmot sin I'm the Aquarius project

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manager here at JPL and I'll be giving

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you periodic updates as this mission

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gets closer and closer to launch in june

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of this year Aquarius is NASA's first

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sea surface salinity mission in simpler

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terms Aquarius measures how salty the

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ocean is from space if you take a pinch

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of salt and put into a gallon of water

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that is the sensitivity we can measure

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from 408 miles above the earth the birth

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of Aquarius started here in the US the

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queries instrument was built by NASA at

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JPL once the instrument was completed it

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was taken to Argentina where it was put

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together with the spacecraft provided by

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Argentina we then transported the

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instrument and spacecraft to Brazil to

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do environmental testing the

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environmental testing assures us that

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will work in space appropriately then

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just last month it was brought back to

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Vandenberg where it's going to be

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launched coming up next we will show you

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how the solar panels are attached to the

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spacecraft these solar panels takes

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sunlight converts them into electricity

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and charges the battery when we're going

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to be in space I mahmud sin with this