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climate. This work provides a review of the first year of data, 
including the status of calibration and validation, other finding 
and at the same time we want to present the progress in the 
active educational and outreach program including the 
information of SAC-D Aquarius Mission. 
2. GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF 
THE SENSORS 
The Table 1 summarizes the general characteristics of each 
instrument on board SAC-D Aquarius satellite, and their main 
applications related to ocean, climate and environment. 
3. FIRST RESULTS 
The following figures (1,2,3,4,5,6) show the first science data 
obtained from SAC-D Aquarius Observatory. These are some 
examples, now we are working on the calibration of each 
instruments and the validation of the data in order to improve 
the quality of data and products for end users. 
Many academic and scientific teams around the world are 
developing new algorithms and products. Some of these data 
can be downloaded from NASA and CONAE web site. 
  
4. CONCLUSIONS 
These results demonstrate the performance of the satellite and 
its sensors. At present we are working on the calibration of the 
instruments and validation of the data. 
The International Science Team of this mission are using and 
applying the data around the world. More than 40 groups from 
US, Argentina, Italy, Japan, Brasil, Chile are part of the 
international team, and the exchange among them is very rich. 
This is the beginning. In the case of Argentine Projects (15), 
they are supported for the Ministry of Science, Technology and 
Productive Innovation. 
The activities in education and public outreach are other 
important point in the Mission, a lot of material was prepared 
for the web site, for hardcopies and digital format. 
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
The authors thank to the NASA, CONAE and all the institutions 
who are participated in this big project. 
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Figure 3: Global Rain Rate Map from MWR.