NASA has named Denton Gibson launch director for the Launch Services Program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Gibson fills a position made available
sharing the responsibilities for launching missions in 2024, including NASA’s PACE (Plankton
After passing a key review hurdle, NASA’s newest mission to study the health of Earth’s ocean ecosystems and atmosphere is ready to move from design to reality.
Credits: NASA / Matt Radcliff The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE
The Gulf of Maine is growing increasingly warm and salty, due to ocean currents pushing warm water into the gulf from the Northwest Atlantic, according to a
GNATS dataset are expected to contribute to the upcoming observations by NASA’s Plankton
Werner Winz, chief of the Wallops aircraft projects office, said, “The science projects we are supporting this year will take us over a vast area of the
sea and air in September, for the third year, to study how the world’s largest plankton
Flight operations engineer Carissa Arillo helped ensure one of the instruments on NASA’s PACE mission made it successfully through its prelaunch testing. She
Goddard Space Flight Center Related Terms Goddard Space Flight Center PACE (Plankton
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is preparing today for tomorrow’s mission. Supersonic flight, next generation aircraft,
On the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment mission
A decade ago, scientists on a NASA-sponsored ocean expedition found massive populations of phytoplankton blooming beneath sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Now
when integrated over area, these Southern Ocean blooms may be a very large mass of plankton
Harmful algae can endanger public health and coastal ecosystems and economies. Advances in satellite imaging are providing new ways to look at our living ocean.
NASA’s PACE, or Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission, will study phytoplankton
NASA’s airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance, or air-LUSI, flew aboard NASA’s ER-2 aircraft from March 12 to 16 to accurately measure the amount of light
NASA’s upcoming Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission is planning
The microscopic size of phytoplankton, the plant-like organisms that live in the sunlit upper ocean, belies their importance in the global environment. They
inform NASA’s current and planned ocean color satellite instruments, including the Plankton
