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Global view of sea surface salinity
Aquarius Yields NASA's First Global Map of Ocean Salinity (00:00:37)
[27-Sep-11] Global map of the salinity of Earth's ocean surface (a composite of the first two and a half weeks of data). Credit: NASA.