CORAL

COral Reef Airborne Observatory

past Mission

Type

Airborne Science

Dates

2016-2017

Target

Earth

Objective

Analyze the status of Earth's coral reefs

CORAL was a three-year mission to provide critical data and new models needed to analyze the status of coral reefs and to predict their future.

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