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PACE Mission Blog: The Journey of a Carbon Atom: From Space, NASA’s PACE Mission Detects Carbon in the Sky, Land, and Sea

03.22.2023
Whether in plants or animals, greenhouse gases or smoke, carbon atoms exist in various compounds as they move through a multitude of pathways within Earth’s system. That’s why NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission – scheduled to launch in January 2024 – was designed to peer down at Earth from space to see those many forms of carbon in a way no other satellite has done before by measuring colors not yet seen from the vantage point of space.

PACE Mission Blog: Observatory, assembled!

12.02.2022
The PACE satellite now has all three of its scientific instruments attached to the spacecraft, as the integration crew bolted the Ocean Color Instrument into place with its two polarimeter neighbors.

PACE Mission Blog: NASA’s PACE Mission Undergoes Milestone Testing

11.30.2022
NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, which will provide a major boost to scientists studying Earth’s atmosphere and ocean health, completed a milestone test in October at Goddard Space Flight Center. The Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) on the PACE mission passed thermal vacuum tests to ensure it can withstand the harsh space environments.
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The Ocean Ecology Laboratory (OEL) advances Earth System Science by managing ocean and atmospheric satellite climate data records, developing new remote sensing, field, laboratory, and modeling methods, and by conducting innovative research in ocean Biogeochemistry and atmospheric composition and processes.

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