{"id":797128,"date":"2025-07-04T05:23:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=797128"},"modified":"2025-07-04T05:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:23:03","slug":"esa-sea-surface-salinity-around-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=797128","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; Sea-surface salinity around Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Using data from ESA\u2019s SMOS satellite, scientists have revealed a surprising shift in the Southern Ocean \u2013 surface waters around Antarctica are growing saltier, even as sea ice is diminishing rapidly. This finding defies the norm because melting ice typically freshens ocean surface water. The implications are far-reaching as changes in this remote region can disrupt global ocean currents, affect climate patterns, and alter ecosystems far beyond the Antarctic.<\/p>\n<p>The figure shows changes sea-surface salinity over 2011 and 2023, extracted from PNAS paper: Rising surface salinity and declining sea ice: a new Southern Ocean state revealed by satellites<\/p>\n<p><b>Read full story: <\/b>Antarctic waters getting saltier as sea ice wanes<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2025\/07\/Sea-surface_salinity_around_Antarctica?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using data from ESA\u2019s SMOS satellite, scientists have revealed a surprising shift in the Southern Ocean \u2013 surface waters around Antarctica are growing saltier, even as sea ice is diminishing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":797129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/797129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}