A reporter asks a question to the panel of scientists assembled at the Aquarius/SAC-D press conference on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.  Seated from left are Eric Lindstrom, Aquarius Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters; Eric Ianson, Aquarius Program Executive, NASA Headquarters; Gary Lagerloef, Aquarius Principal Investigator, Earth / Space Research, Seattle; Amit Sen, Aquarius Project Manager, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Daniel Caruso, SAC-D Project Manager, CONAE, Argentina.  The mission will study the salinity of the Earth's oceans from space.  Aquarius/SAC-D is a collaboration between NASA and Argentina's space agency Comision Nacional de Actividades Especiales (CONAE), with participation from Brazil, Canada, France and Italy.  The Aquarius/SAC-D observatory will launch June 9, 2011 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.  Photo Credit:  (NASA/Carla Cioffi)
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<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85720343" class="extiw" title="d:Q85720343"><span title="American photographer">Carla Cioffi</span></a>
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