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Get Ready to Work with PACE Data
NASA - PACE's cutting-edge technology will reveal new insights into our ocean, atmosphere and climate. To help you engage with PACE data, we have created a list of key resources. Icons indicate the resource type and time commitment to fully engage with that resource.
Climate Models Can't Explain 2023's Huge Heat Anomaly
Nature - When I took over as the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, I inherited a project that tracks temperature changes since 1880. Using this trove of data, I’ve made climate predictions at the start of every year since 2016. It’s humbling, and a bit worrying, to admit that no year has confounded climate scientists’ predictive capabilities more than 2023 has.
PACE-PAX Science Team Meeting
News From a Changing Planet: Seeing Algae From Space
PrintMag - Something impossible to see with the naked eye: phytoplankton. Something newly possible to see from space: phytoplankton.
NASA's PACE Mission: Investigating Climate Change and Ocean Health from Space
Medriva - Recently, NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite mission was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The spacecraft was propelled into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, marking a significant step forward in our fight against climate change and our quest for understanding the Earth’s ecosystem. The PACE mission is a groundbreaking initiative that aims to study the effects of climate change on phytoplankton, a key player in the global carbon cycle and ecosystem processes.
Preparing for PACE Data
NASA EarthDATA - When NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PAC) satellite launched into space on February 8, 2024, the team was excited for the spacecraft to begin its mission. This is not only because the endeavor was more than a decade in the making and critical for understanding Earth's ocean, atmosphere, and climate change.
UMaine Scientists Aid NASA Mission to Study Climate Impact on Oceans
UMaine News - On Feb. 8, Emmanuel Boss watched via livestream from Maine as 15 years of work culminated in a satellite launching into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Appearing as if enveloped in a ball of fire, the satellite jetted upward through the dark sky. It was 1:33 a.m.
How NASA is Keeping PACE with Climate Change
Forbes - As a former scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, I still get very excited with the successful launch of a mission focused on Planet Earth. Unfortunately, NASA’s robust Earth Sciences program and its missions often do not get the same attention as past shuttle launches, large telescopes or Mars rovers.
People of PACE: Kirk Knobelspiesse Keeps His Eyes on the Skies
NASA GSFC - Kirk Knobelspiesse is an atmospheric scientist and the project science team polarimeter lead for PACE at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He is also the polarimeter instrument scientist for the Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) constellation.
NASA's PACE Mission Aims to Vastly Increase Understanding of the Oceans, Atmosphere
Spaceflight Now - From the oceans to the atmosphere, there’s still quite a bit we don’t understand about our planet. NASA’s latest Earth-observing spacecraft hopes to greatly expand our knowledge of the globe in just a few years.
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