NASA uses new satellite to study oceans and environmental interactions

JACKSON, Tenn. — Earth Day is a time to admire, celebrate and protect our home planet.

Earth’s beauty is not only defined by its breath-taking landscapes, but also by its vast oceans that cover more than 70 percent of our planet’s surface!

This Earth Day, let’s take a deep dive into ocean health through the lens of NASA’s newest satellite called PACE.

Since its launch in February, NASA’s plankton, aerosol, cloud, ocean ecosystem satellite, or PACE, is ushering in a new era of ocean science from the atmosphere down to the surface of the ocean.

“NASA has used the advantage point of space to study earth as a system and understand how the air and the ocean and the land interact. So here on Earth Day we’re looking to bring all of this information together… And we bring that information together to understand ‘how is earth changing, why does earth work the way it does, and what does that mean for the people who live both here in the united states and around the world’,” said Program Manager at Earth Action, Dr. Allison Leidner.

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