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    Six Weeks at Sea: NASA Scientists Double-Check Satellite Ocean Color Data

    An artist created visual of the globe is centered in the picture. All land on the image appears as a gray color, while the ocean is watercolored in shades of green, purple, and blue. The colors indicate the levels of chlorophyll in an area. Yellows and greens indicate higher levels, while purples and blues indicate lower levels.

    NASA researcher Joaquin Chaves calls it "ground truthing," even though land is nowhere in sight. This spring, Chaves boarded the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) research cruise for six weeks of sampling water and taking measurements as the ship traversed the Atlantic Ocean. His team, based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, uses …

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