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Optical Tech from NH May Help NASA Find Algal Blooms
NH Business Review - A satellite with New Hampshire-made optical components that help detect microscopic ocean plankton and aerosol particles that may inform climate change is in space as of earlier this month.
Engineers at the Corning Advanced Optics plant in Keene used their foundational expertise from earlier work with private space firms and NASA to help build crucial parts of the federal space agency’s PACE satellite, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb. 8 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket after a weather delay.
UMBC Scientists and Engineers Celebrate Launch of HARP2 Instrument on NASA's PACE Mission
UMBC News - The third time’s the charm. Against a calm and crisp dark night sky on Florida’s Cape Canaveral last Thursday, February 8, just after 1:30 a.m., the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) spacecraft rocketed to orbit carrying on board Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP2)―UMBC’s wide-angle imaging polarimeter. The launch marked the first time NASA deployed a university payload on a large operational Earth science space mission.
People of PACE: Amir Ibrahim Understands the Atmosphere to Study the Ocean
NASA GSFC - Amir Ibrahim is the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) project science lead for atmospheric correction at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Launch of Mission to Study Earth's Atmosphere and Oceans
Official NASA Broadcast - Our Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission will study what makes Earth so different from every other planet we study: life itself. Three-quarters of our home planet is covered by water, and PACE’s advanced instruments will provide new ways to measure the distributions of microscopic algae known as phytoplankton near the ocean’s surface. Those observations will enhance our understanding of the crucial exchange of CO2 between the ocean and atmosphere.
NASA's New PACE Observatory Searches for Clues to Humanity's Future
WIRED - Way up in the sky and sprinkled across the seas, two of the littlest yet most influential things in the world have stubbornly guarded their secrets: aerosols and phytoplankton.
NASA's PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science
The Economist - Small things can have big effects. Take the plant plankton that populate the Earth’s oceans. When zooplankton eat them, the phytoplankton release a chemical called dimethyl sulphide (dms) and it is this that people are referring to when they speak of the “smell of the sea”.
People of PACE: Bridget Seegers Sails the Seas and... and Studies Them Too!
NASA GSFC - Bridget Seegers is an oceanographer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and a team member for NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission.
NASA Climate Satellite Blasts off to Survey Oceans and Atmosphere of a Warming Earth
U.S. News & World Report - NASA’s newest climate satellite rocketed into orbit Thursday to survey the world’s oceans and atmosphere in never-before-seen detail.
SpaceX launched the Pace satellite on its $948 million mission before dawn, with the Falcon rocket heading south over the Atlantic to achieve a rare polar orbit.
How NASA's PACE mission hopes to examine oceanic and atmospheric mysteries
abc NEWS - While NASA is known for observing and researching outer space, the agency is also using a spacecraft to explore a frontier here on Earth -- the world's oceanic and atmospheric mysteries.
New NASA mission launches to observe "invisible universe" on Earth
(CNN) - A revolutionary new satellite that will provide an unprecedented look at Earth’s microscopic marine life and tiny atmospheric particles has launched.
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