Salt of the Earth
Salinity plays a major role in how ocean waters circulate around the globe. Salinity changes can create ocean circulation changes that, in turn, may impact regional and global climates. The extent to which salinity impacts our global ocean circulation is still relatively unknown, but NASA's new Aquarius mission will help advance that understanding by painting a global picture of our planet's salty waters.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Helen-Nicole Kostis (UMBC)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Susan Twardy (HTSI)
- Chris Smith (HTSI)
- Chris Meaney (HTSI)
- Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC)
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Video editor
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (UMBC)
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Interviewees
- Jeff Halverson (JCET UMBC)
- Susan Lozier (Duke University)
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Narrator
- Troy Cline (Raytheon/GSFC)
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Producer
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (UMBC)
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Scientists
- Jeff Halverson (JCET UMBC)
- Susan Lozier (Duke University)
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Videographer
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (UMBC)
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Writer
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (UMBC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, October 12, 2009.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.