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25-Jan-18
Public Release of the NASA/GSFC AQUARIUS RFI Level 3, Version 1.0 Product by the PO.DAAC
07-Dec-17
Official NASA Aquarius/SAC-D Version 5.0 End-of-Mission Data Set Released
26-July-17
Gary Lagerloef Selected as Recipient of the Verner E. Suomi Award
17-Jan-17
Aquarius Scientist Receives International Award
18-Nov-16
Satellite Salinity Data Available from SMAP
16-May-16
Study Offers Clues to Better Rainfall Predictions
03-Mar-16
Ocean Surface Salinity from NASA's SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) Platform
17-Jun-15
International Spacecraft Carrying NASA's Aquarius Instrument Ends Operations
17-Jun-15
SAC-D Aquarius: Los Logros de una Exitosa Misión Satelital Argentina
16-May-15
Dark Material on Jupiter's Moon Could Be Sea Salt
10-Apr-17
PO.DAAC Releases Newly Redesigned State of the Ocean Visualization Tool
24-Jan-17
Global Ocean Salinity and the Water Cycle Workshop (May 22-26, 2017)
03-May-16
Aquarius v4.0 Dataset Released
17-Mar-16
NASA Aquarius Data Training Workshop
24-Sep-15
2015 Aquarius/SAC-D/Ocean Salinity Science Team Meeting Scheduled
11-Sep-15
New Aquarius Data Visualizations Now Available From NASA SVS
20-July-15
Official NASA Aquarius/SAC-D Version 4.0 Mission Data Set Released
18-Jun-15
PI Announcement to Science Team and Broader Science Community
16-Apr-15
Just Published! SPURS: Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study - The North Atlantic Experiment
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