PACE Stories
NASA Data Helps Maine Oyster Farmers Choose Where to Grow
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NASA satellites are helping Maine oyster farmers pick better sites and plan when oysters will be ready to harvest.
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NASA Supercomputers Take on Life Near Greenland’s Most Active Glacier
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As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of JPL and MIT that’s been called a laboratory in itself. Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kicking nutrients up from…
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By Air and by Sea: Validating NASA’s PACE Ocean Color Instrument
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In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, dolphins, whales, seabirds, and – for a few weeks in October – scientists. A team from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, with partners at…
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