The Delta II rocket with its Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft payload is seen as the service structure is rolled back on Thursday, June 9, 2011, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.  The joint U.S./Argentinian Aquarius/Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC)-D mission, set to launch June 10, will map the salinity at the ocean surface, information critical to improving our understanding of two major components of Earth's climate system: the water cycle and ocean circulation. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71171454" class="extiw" title="d:Q71171454"><span title="American photographer">Bill Ingalls</span></a>
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