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Featured Videos

Why Is NASA Tracking Seaweed From Space?

In recent years, large amounts of a brown seaweed – called Sargassum – have been washing up on shorelines. In the open ocean, Sargassum is essential habitat, but it can cause a whole host of issues when it washes up on Caribbean coastlines. So where is this seaweed coming from? And how is NASA tracking it?

An Ocean in Bloom

From the far reaches of space, NASA scientists aim to expand their knowledge of how our ocean, atmosphere, and ecosystems interact with one another through the launch of the PACE satellite. By identifying and examining harmful algal blooms around the world, PACE will inform communities ranging from local fishermen to large corporations on what is occurring in their backyard and beyond.

Keeping PACE with the Oceans

Join NASA’s chief scientist, Kate Calvin, as she explores the PACE mission in depth with oceanographers Ivona Cetinić and Bridget Seegers.

PACE Makes the Invisible Visible

PACE views our entire planet every day, returning data at a cadence that allows scientists to track and monitor the rapidly changing atmosphere and ocean, including cloud formation, aerosol movement, and differences in microscopic ocean life over time.

 

Local News

 

Welcome to NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment (PACE-PAX). PACE-PAX uses the uniq...

Tuesday, September 24, 2024
 

Off the coast of southern California, a research team sails for science on the Research Vessel Blissfully. https://earthobse...

Tuesday, September 24, 2024
 

Hello from sunny Santa Barbara, California, where the ship operations for the PACE-PAX campaign are underway!

Friday, September 13, 2024
 

Stephen Broccardo, research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, is the principal investi...

Tuesday, August 27, 2024
 

Brice Grunert, assistant professor at Cleveland State University in Ohio, is a member of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Clou...

Tuesday, August 20, 2024