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Satellite launched to measure motions of the oceans

2016-01-17 17:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Spaceflight Now: A new satellite built to extend a 24-year series of joint U.S.-European ocean observatories climbed away from a foggy California launch pad and sailed into orbit more than 800 miles above Earth on Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Jason 3 satellite is kicking off a five-year mission to precisely measure ocean waves, maritime winds, ocean currents and sea level rise for a consortium of scientific institutions in the United States and Europe. The spacecraft lifted off at 10:42:18 a.m....

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